L*f* >*9 ¦iQ.4v ' -r": rm 1 -tf* &y3 L $I.iglplb;tkefc2}Mff foi tie ftmmbag *f a. College, &.tf8$jColDiv)» • iLmais_ai5y • THE WORKS OF Stomas; tymnt, £©? #? PRINTED FOR SAMUEL BAGSTER, IN THE STRAND. 1810, VOL. II. CONTAINING TBP S?C0ND VOLUME OF ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER'S CHRONICLE. Mercier and Chervet, Printers, Bartholomew Cloae, Eondon, ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER'S CHRONICLE. Volume the Second. Uobfert of GlotilceSterV Chronicle. 867 $>YS noble duc'WyT&m hymlet crounyg kiyng At Londoner ^m^ffg^y titer day, n&blycbe JjIotu alle byhg, Of ^rjMeb^sHp'of5 Eiierwyk, Aldred was hys name. ber nas prince irl'bil al 'wbrlde of sb noble fame. Of be heye men of bys'lohdj bat fiii*he ssolde a£en bym turtle, Hii effte ostagenslitfhg ynou, & me ne dorstehym no_t wurne, Ac stok him Ss'tage god at ys owe wylle, ' So bat _yf enf a_en hyni Was, huld hym bo stylle. _yf toward Edgar Adelyng eny hys herte drbu, bat was kunde e'yr of bys lond, * huld hym stylle ynou. So bat bo pys Edgar ysey al hou ytWas, 3 bat hym nas nobyng so god, as to fie be cas, Hys 'mode/ 6e bys sostren tuo myd hym sone he nbme, To w'ende ajeri "to be londj fram * wan he er cdtne. A wynd ber com bo in be see, & drof hym ' to Scotlonde. So bat after betere wynd hii moste bere 6 at stonde. 7 Macolon kyng of be lond to bym sone * hem drou, And vor be 9 kunne, of was hii come", hoilourede hem ynou So bait be gode Margarete, as bys wylle I0 to com, be eldore of* be tuo, in spoushod he' '' home, So though "any a yenste hem were, he helde him self stille Ar. , aHe was stylle i now Ar. 3 For to wende him oute of this londe he caste him in such cas Ar. 4 Whenne Ar. i Into Ar. 6 A stonde Ar. i Macolyn Ar. 8 Him Ar. 9 Kyn, of wham ha came, honoured him i now Ar. "To him cam, The elder suster of the twoo, Ar. " Name, Ar. And 368 iBiQfeerjt of,; Q Joucest^'s; Chr^^fe. And by byre adde an dogter subbe, be god quene Mold> fiat quene was of Engelond, j1 as me ab er ytold, bat, god er. help al Engelond was^, hep euere ybore. Vor boru.hyre com subbe Engelond |n to be kunde more. In be jer of grace * a. bpusend & syxty" ber(p Kyng ,3 Maqolom spousede Margarete sp. , Ac. kyng Wyllam Jjei; bynpr? about an.^uo ger Wende agen to Noruiandye, fr^m wan he corn er. As in vorste ger, tba^ be auoug hys kynedom, Ac agen sone to. Engelond a Scyn, Nycolas day he com, And.knygles of bygonde see, &(pber mgn also, He gef londes in Engelond, bat lygtlychecpm berto, bat gut her eyrs holdeb alpnde mony on ; 4 And deseryfed mony knndp men, bat b-e huld hys fon So bat J>e meste .* del of hey men, ba^ in Engelond beb». Beb ycome of be Normans, as ge nou yseb. And men of relygyoaof Nor mandye also He fefFede here myd londes, &. myd rentes al soi. So bat vewe contreyes 6 beb in Engelond, j?at monekes nabbeb of Nprmandye sombyng in her honde. Kyng Wyllam bybogte hym ek pf be vpic, J>at was verlore, And aslawe eke boru hym in batayle byuore. ' That goode was i holde, That godderhele alle Enge- lotid, Jat ever she was i bore. For thourgh her to the lond com a ye the fight more 'Ar. 1 MI. lxx. Ar. sed in niarg. ab ead. manu MI. lxxii". Anno mlxvii. hoc contigisse notant alii. Videsis Raphaelis Holin. shedi chronical edilionem pri- mam sive genuinam {A. D. 1577. Lqndini ex'cusam,)in vol. nimirum primi parte Scotica, pag. 254. i Macolynof Scot. lond spoused this mayde so Ar. 4And disherited the Englysshe, that he helde his fon Ar. 'Part Ar. 6 Buth here in Ar. Jere, Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 369 pete, as be batayle was, an abbey he let rere Of Seyn Martyn, vor her soules, bat per aslawe were, And be monekes wel y nou feffede wyboute fayle, Pat ys ycluped in Engelond, abbey of * be" batayle. be abbey of Came also be rerdc in Normandye Of Seyn Steuene, bat ys nou, ych wene, a nonnerye. He 2 brogfe vp mony ober hous of relygyon al so, To 3 bete bulke robberye, bat hym bogte he adde ydo. And erles eke & barons, bat he made here al so, bogte bat hii ne come nogt myd gode rygte berto, Hii rerde abbeyes & prioryes vor her synnes bo, As Teokesbury & Oseneye, an aboute mony mo. Kyng Wyllam was to mylde men debonere y nou, 4 Ac to men, bat hym wybsede, to all sturiihede he drou. In chyrche he was deuout y non, vor liym ne ssolde non day abyde, bat he ne hurde masse & matyns, 5 & eueson, & eche tyde. So vareb monye bys bey men, in chyrche me muy ysey Knely to God, as hii wolde al quyc to hym fie, Ac be hii aryse, & abbeb yturnd fram be wened her wombe, Wolues dede hii nymeb vorb, bat er dude as lombe. 1 Deest Ar. * Hal [> vp eke other houses Ar. 3 Bote Ar. 4 Ac sterne to his foomen, or • ^ thulke that dud wough Ar. J And' alle the other tydes. So fareth many heigh men in churche, tha- me may see In churche kneleth biddyng as hii wolde to heuen fleo Vol. II. Al qnyc, ac haue they tourned fro the wened wombe, Wolues dedes wolle they do, that thought in churche as lombe. Hri tormenteth hure tenaun tes, as hulde hem they wolde i wys. They me wepe, and crye on hem merry non ther nys Ar. Hii 370 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Hii to draweb be sely bonde men, as wolde hem hulde y wys. bey me wcpe & crye on hem, nou mercy ber nys. Vnnebe was ber.eny hous in al Normandye Of relygyon, as abbey ober priorye, bat kyng Wyllam ne fbfede here in Engelond Myd londes, ober myd rentes, bat hii abbeb gut an bonde, As me may wyde aboute in mony contreye yse, War born bys lond nede mot be pouerore be. Kyng Wyllam adde yspoused, as God gef bat cas, be eric's dpgter of Flanderes, Mold yr name was. Sones hii adde to gadere & dogtren bobe tuo, As Robert be Courtehese, & Wyllam be rede kyng also, Henry be gode kyng was gpngost of eclion. Dogtren be adde al so, Cecyly bet bat on be eldeste, bat was at Came nonne & abbese. . Constance be ober was, of Brutayiie contesse, be erle's wyf Aleyn. Adele gongost was, To Steuene Blcys yspoused, as God gef bat cas^ A nd by hym adde ek an sone, Steuene was hys name, bat subj>e was kyng of Engelond,. & endedc myd jssame. Macolon kyng of Scotlond,. & Edgar Abelyng (bat best ' kunde in Engelond adde to be kyno-) Huld hem euere in Scptlond,. &. poer to hem nome To 1 worry vp kyng Wyllam, wanne gode tyme come. And-gret-compaynye nf bey^me&^Eng^Tbnd" bat ne louede nogt kyng Wyllam,, were bp in Scotlonde. 'Kynde hadde in Eng^ I * Werre-yppoa William kyn- lond by lyne to be kyng) Ar. \ when Ar. Vor Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 371 Vor kyng Macolon alle vnderuong, bat agen kyng Wyllam were, And drou hem to hym iu Scotlonde, & susbyrtrd hem berr. ' Vor Edgar, hys wyue's brober, was kunde eyr of bys lond. So bat hii adde of bobe be londes gret poer sone an bonde. Ar kyng Wyllam adde ybe kyng follyche pre ger, 1 bat folc of Denemarch, bat * bys londe worrede er. Grey bed hem myd gret poer, as hii dude er ylome, And myd bre hondered ssypuolmen to Engelond 4 hii" come. Hii aryuede in be Norb contreye, & Edgar Abelyng And kyng Macolom were bo glade boru alle byng. To hem hii come at Homber myd be poer of Scbtlond, And were alle * at conseyl to worry Engelond . Hii 6 worrede al Norbhomberloiid, & vorb eurre as hii come. So bat be toun of Euerwyke, & be castel ek hii nome, And mony hey men al so of be contreye aboute. So fat T bet folc byuore ne dorste nour at route. And bo hii adde al ywonne be conireye pere bysyde, Hii ne come no ver Soubward, * at berc hii gonne abyde Bytuene be water of Trente & of Ouse al so. bere hii * byleuede in her poer vorte wynter were ydo. 10 be kyng Wyllam abod his tyme vorte wynter was al oute, And bo com he myd such poer & myd so gret route, '. To mayntene his wyue's brother, as heire of the londe. So that he hadde of bothe Reaumes gret power on hande Ar. » The Ar. ' This londe i werried hadde er, Ar. 4 Deest Ar. s A* on coun. seille to werre Ar. b Robbed Ar. 1 The folke by ne durst nowhar route. So that when. ne they hadde i wonne the countrey a boute wyde, Ar. 8 Ac ther gonne Ar. 9 By lefte, with her Ar. I0 Kynij William the Somer by fore was. wende.- to, :Norai3ndye, And zn Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. bat hii nadde non poer agen hym vorto stonde, At lete be kyng be maystrye, & flowe to Scotlond. And hem to ,her owe lond be Deneys flowe age. be kyng destrucle be contreye al aboute be see, Of frut & of corne bat * ber ne byleuede nogt Syxty myle fram be se, bat nas to grounde ybrogt. '¦ And al bat be Deneys non mete ne founde pere Wanne Jiii come to 3 worry, & so be feblore were. So bat gut to 'bys day muche lond bere ys As al wast & vntuled, so.yt was bo destrud ywys. Kyng Wyllam adauntedc * bat folc of Walys, And made hem 5 bere hyrri trnage, & byhote hym &!hys. be senebe ger of hys kynedom, an alle soule day, pe quene Mold 6 hys wyf deyde, bat wel longe er syk lay, And hadde others and seurte of alle the chijialrye Of 'En. gelond atte Saresbury, while he of londe were. And while he was his enroys came- in this manere. Kyng William of this cas in Normandy e hurde, Ac. netheles for wyn ter was past, iu Normaudye he furde.' And thenne oute of Normandye into this londe he cam. So g.rete power of thulke londe and of Fraunce be nam With him in to En. gelond of knyghtes <& quyers, Sper men and archers, and also abblasln-s, That hem thought in . Engelonde > so muche folks; ther nas. Won- der was hit (how., that p.eple susteyned was. The ennemys ne had pouer non a yen him fort to stonde, Ac lete the kyng the mastry, and flow in to Scottelonde. And home into hur'awne londe Ar. 1 There by lefte nought Ar. j*That the Danes, whanne they come, no mete Ar. 3 Werry, Ar. * Eke the . folke Ar. _Jyeye hym hostage to do no more a mys Ar. 6 Hac de re lectu digna sunt qua; in Cod. Ar. observa- v(t auctor prosaicus, qua1 sane ifttegra- hie describere visum est. Hit is to remembre, (inquit ille) that Cronicles telletb, that, a monge other -vertues that kyng William hadde in Roberto? Gloucester?* Chroiiicle; 1 In pe ger of grace a fousend & seucnly &|)re'. Anon in bulke sulue ger as"- yt wolde be ' be kyng Wyllamj vorto wyte be wurb x of lond, Let en query 3 streytlyohe'boru il Engelond, his youthe, be Was so chaste,' [worship and coste a boiie her, that open fame- was he myght nat dele w^th wqmRn, , , and , that, sumwhat a yenst his wnTe^ fhourgh counsell of his lordes, he -Wm' maked wedde quene Maude, whiche plesed him welle, and were longe of gode accorde. But natheles, some seide atte laste of his tymij'he shulae haue take lo'' concubyine a preste's cfough'- ter, which* Maude the quene ! ¦and\ wepfe and-ilaBg .maiedj1 deel, ,and worshipliche buried'. Fawer yere she deyde to fore. f.-i;.VAr ^-j;;, 3,,/ .'-'<¦ - y _ , ' the kyng, and was i ' buried "at' Came tiv- Norma'hdye, in* "the munstre of 4M holye Tryi nyte. r 'Als jn^th^yere of , grape/ Ml. iiii. and iii. yere. Fayre ' fruyt to' the Ttyng' she hadde Wrought forth ere. The1 kyng by a certayne prine seriaunt A WIUisun^^.___^-gMo..3M.<(/gj» of hure shulde haue do slayne^ Whiche thyoge1 the kyng ' a- "S^i^figif he^disliereted the man, \ and bette so his wyf 'Wrth'a brydell', ihatstiieo deyde after, bu*e tiii» is not, to leue, sethej the Cmnicle, of such-a1 ky*g. i but this .was cti%& -gothe-. 'In Jbure last' day es-va ltteM feyn. yng amd deibat bi 4wixte »hem ; "Was, for :.' Robert i Curthose i her:9one, tfo which rthe moder, of hure rentes yaf itfy)jidynig" ne shewed, that he ne dude to the quene .-As spousodi ask®dj' suthe that tit hure dey>pg he dude grete recte,secus atque inCodiceHar- lepbno;, A. D: 10831 'Mdfildem -obiiisesigniftcatur. ' Utrobique 'itutent' (taix iUihtruni iri Cod. Hdrle^dtio}/itamc^tnAr.)per- ¦$eramraj?$eritti'r,nt'drltem co'riti- ' gisse anno rigniGuilielihi 7ta0. quum' re vera aedderit aniio rcgni 1 7m<>. * Of His lbnde At: 'cuin Codicc"MS '.Cottoniano, & i'qito 'idciim hiihc edidit el. Set. 'tienus, ih'Jani An jf. facie al tera, p. 66. ed. London 16^0. t'Vide- etidm • ^jwsd1.' ' Selde'ni •irtictatuiti Angilce scriptuni, 'ciH tit. Englaud's Epmomis, pag. 13. ' Trusteliche through. :oute alle Ar* Hon sn Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Hou mony plou lond, & hou rhony hyden al so, Were in euerycbe ssyre, & wat hii were wurb berto ; And * ren+ys of ech toun, & be wateres echone, 1 pet wurb, & of wodes ek, bat ber ne hyleuede none, 3 bat he wuste wat hii were wurb, & so vnder stonde And wyte al clene y nou, & bet wryt dude ywys In be tresorye at Weslmynstre, bere 4 as" yt gut ys. So bat oure kynges subbe, wanne hii raunsora tpke, 3 Iredy wat folc mygtegyue, hii founde ber in * her bokc. bere was by kyng VVyllame's day worre & sorwc y nou, : Vor non T man ne durste hym wyb seggc, lie wrogte moche wyb wo. To hem, bat wolde bys wylle do, deboncre he was & mylde, And to hem, bat hym wyb seyde, strong tyrant & wylde. Wo so come to esse hym rygt of eny trespas, ^ Bote he * pa jde hym the bet, be worse hys ende was* 1 The rentes Ar. cum Cod. Cot. 2 And the worthe of wodes eke, that there [that there quo. que Cod. Co*.] by lafte none. And lete hit write in a boke, and dude the boke i wys, In the Tresourye of Westmyn. stre, as hit yut ther is. So that other kyng. s su the, tail. lage whanne they toke, Iiii founde what folke myght yeae redy in thulke bokc Ar. Sf in jnargine, £ regiape, ab cad. ' manu, f Domes. day or Lande boke. 1 But that he wist wat hii were wurfh of al Engelonde, And wite al clene that worth, there of, ich vnderstond, And let it write clene ' inou, and that scrit dude iwis Cod. Cot. 4 Deest in Cot. J And redy Cot. 6Yor Cot. ' Man durste him with segge, they me dude him wough Ar. * Paide ther fore the bette, the worsse at ende hit was. Thourghoute alle Engelond yut neuerthe. les He made, that me jnyght goo fro toune to toune in pes, In forestes eke and other stedes, so that no tyme nas, That pees bet meyntayned thann* by hys tyme was Ar. Robertof Gloocester'-s Ghrooiclo. Arid be more, vnrygt me ssolde do hym, bac among obcro nabeles boru out al Engelond he buld wel god pes. Vor me mygtebere by. hys daye & lede bardelycbe Tresour aboute & pber god ouei;a\,a,peilelyche In wodes & in pber etudes, so bat non tyme nas bathes bet-ysusteyned, bat-by hys tyme was. .< Game of bondes he louede y nou, V&of wylde best, And hys * forest & hys wodes, &^raesfcbe nywe forest, bat ys in 3 Soubhamtessyre, yor h§ bulke louede y nou, And astored yt wel myd beMysSc, lese myd gret won. Vor he caste oute of * horn & hpus of hys men gret route, And by nome her lond ge brytty mylex& more ber aboutev And made yt al forest & lese, be bestes vorto fede. Of poueremen deseryted be nome Intel hede, beruorc w.ybynne yel mony mys clemiyge, And bys sone was jer ynne ysspte Wyllam be rede kyng. And bys sone, bat b,et Rychard, cagte ber hys deb al so. And Rychard, bys °P$r\ ,Y°T brec Jere hys necke jaluo As be rod an hontep, &,perauntre hys hors 5 spirrde. be.vnrygt yd© to. poueremen to s«che»i»ysauntre>.' tijrnde. 375 *Fo- wodes,.- hut most And eke qt-^tr. .testers of the . Jbr. . \ Southampshire, that.he , lotted i. iiougli. With wilde . bestes .jp$ , stqred hit, &. dude sraajdeUe wough Ar. * House and home men welle .gret route, And of her londes forest made. xxx. myle a boute, To kynges j-ljlode^tlier, innij suth^ Jiath faile myscheuyng. For-: his sone ther inne w,as shot William the rede kyng. A"d his other sone Richard, that caught his deth also. And Richard, Curthose's sone, ,th% -brake his aek a two Ar. s Spurned Ar, -{:. & De qui- bus quidem omnibus infortu. ¦nils o.pefat. pretiu-m est consu- b 4 lere 37,6 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. ' Wo so by kyng Wyllame's day slou hert ober hynde, i Me ssolde pulte oute bobe hys eye, & make hym pur blynd. Heye men ne dorste by hys day wylde best nyme nogt, Hare ne wylde sWyn, bat hii nere to ssame ybrogt. ber nas so hey man nonj bat hym enes Wyb seyde, bat me ne ssolde hym take anon, & to prison lede. Monye heye men of be lond in prison he huld strong, So bat * muchedel Engelond bogte hys lyf to long. Byssopes & abbates to bys 3 wylle echon, And gyf bat eny hym wrabbede, »doun he was anon. bre sybe he ber croune ager, to Mydewynter at Gloucestre, To Wytespntyde at Westmynstre, to Estre at W jncestre. bulke festes be wojde, holde so rioblyche, Wyb so gret prute & wast, & so rychelyche, bat wonder yt was 4 wanene yt com. ac to snsteyny such noblye, He destrude bat pouere vole, & nom of hem bys preye. lere acperleger&Henrici Spel- manniopus eximium(licetpbst- humum) cut tit. The History and Fate of Sacrilege, ex «po. grapho nostr.o (ajnemet, jam admodum juvene, in wdibus Amid, dum viveret, optimi ac pereruditi FraXcisci Chmr- £ii Sholtesbrochianis,cujus e- quidem viri Maximi impensis accurw imprimis tribuendum est,quod in re litter aria ali quid profeceritn, descripto) A. D. 1698, editum, ubi (pag. 114, #e.) historiam satis luculen- ter explieuit Spelmannus. .'Hii that by kyng Wil. liame's day slow hert or hynde, Her eygen shulde be put oute - aud made starke blynde. Me ne durst by his day wilde best nyme nqglit, Nother wilde swyne ne hare, but hit were dure bought Ar. * Muche del of the londe thought Ar. 3 Wille he mak. ed euery chone, And if any him mispayde, doune he shulde a none. Causes wolde he caste to hem to haue hem iu destresse, As he to Seynt Wolstone dude by cause of lewednesse. . Thries bare he Croune a yere, Ar. 4 Whens hit Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 377 So bat he was ryche hym sulf, & bat lond ponere al out. Sturne he was born out al, & ' heyuol & prout. Suybe bycke man he was, & of grete strengpe, < Gret z womede & ballede, 3 & bote of euene lengbe. So styf man he was in harmes, in ssoldreri, & in leiide, bat vnnebe eny man mygte bys bowe bende, bat he wolde hym sulf vp hys fot rydynge 4 Wel vaste Lygtlyche, s & ssetc al so myd bowe & aiblaste. So hole he was of body ek, bat he ne lay ueuere vaste Syk in hys bed vor none vnel, bote in hys deb* vnel" atte laslc. As be wolde sometyme to ; Engelond wende, Al bat agt-was in Engelond he let somony.in ech ende To Salesbury touore bym, bat hii suore hym al bere To be hym trywe & holde, be wule hii of londe were. ber to be nom gret peyne of hem, & fram Salesbury to Wygtt He wende, & fram banene to Normandye rygt. And wule he was out of Engelond, Edgar Abelyng (bat rygt eyr was of Engelond & kunde to be kyng) Made bys gouge suster, as God gef bat cas, Nonne in be hous of Romeseye, Cristyne hyre name was. bat folc com bo of Denemarcb here to Engelond sone, And robbede & destrude, as hii were ywoned to done. bat word in to Normandye to kyng Wyllam come. So gret poer of bulke lond & of France he nome hit come, to sus toy ne suche a nobley. But natheles of pouer men cam muche of this praye. Riche inough he made him self, this londe pouer i nough thourgh oute Ar. ' Ayfull Ar. * Wombed Ar. .»Ac but Ar. *¥v\\ Ar. s Bendej and shete with bowe and arbelast; So hert hole Ar. *¦ Deest Ar^ i Normandye Ar. rectius. Myd 37S Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Myd hym in to Engelond, of knygtes & of squyers, 1 Spermen auote & bowmen, & al so arblastes, bat hem bogte in Engelond so muche folc neuere nas, * bat yt was wonder bora ysusteyned yt was. Hii of Denemarch flowe sone, vor hii nadde non poer. Ac bat folc of bygonde see byleuede all her, bat vnnrbe al ' bat lond sustynance hem vond. And be kyng hem sende her & ber aboute in Engelond To dyucrse men, to vynde hem mete, more ban her poer was. Frut & corn ber faylede, tempestes * ber come, Lygtynge & bondre ek, bat slou men ylaine. 5 Manne orf deyde alagrouiid, so gret qualm ber was po. Orf faylede & eke corn, hou mygte be more wo? Syknesse com eke among men, bat aboute wyde, Wat vor hortger, wat vor woj men dey-de in" eche syde. So bat sorwes in Engelond were 7 wel mony folde. be kyng & ober ryehcmen wel lute ber of tolde. ¦ Vor hii wolde euere abbe y nou, wanne be pouere adde wo. Seyn Poule!s chyrche Of EOndotie-was ek verbarnd bo. Kyng- Wyllam to Normandye bogte subbe xitte laste. He settfe. hys tounes & hys londes to ferine wel vaste * Wo so mest bode vore, & alond ygranted Were - To a man to bere beruore a certeyn rente by be gete, — - J~S-pcr — men- -and archers, and also abblastres, Ar. - l Wpnder was hit, how that peple here susteyned was Ar. 3 The Ar. * Also ther Ar. ¦ * Hunger, derth and man. quellyng in lond a boute was thoo, Bestes -deyde and-fruytes fayied, haw myght be mor woo ? Ar. * Every Ar. " Full Ar. 8 Ho so most bed- cth ther fore, and thogh thynges graunted were Ar. And Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 379 And anober com & bode more, he were inne anon. . So bat hii bat bode mest brogt out monyon. ' Nere be vorcwaTd no so strong, me bogte ys out wyb wog, So bat be kyng in such manere seluer won ynou." bo he adde yset hys londes so myd such trccherye So heye, & al hys ober byng, he wende to Normandye, And bere he dude wow y nou myd slagt & robberyc, And riamelyche vp be kyng of France, & vp hys compaynye. So bat in * toun of Reyus kyng Wyliain atte laste, Vor elde & vor trauayl, bygan to feble vaste. be kyng Phylyp of France be lasse bo of hym tolde, And drof hym to 3 busemare, as me ofte deb be olde. " be kyng," he seyde, " of Engelond halt hym to bys bedde, <{ And lyb myd hys gret wombe at Reyns4achyld bedde. bo kyng Wyllam burde bys, he made hym somdel wrob, s Vor edwyt of hys grete wombe, & suor anon bys ob : " By be vprysynge of Jhesu Crist, gyf God me wole grace sende, " Vorto make my • chyrchegon, & bringe me of bys bende, " Suche wyues ycholle in yJ me lede, & such lygt atten ende, tl put an hondred bousend candelen & mo ycholle bym tende " Amydde bys londe of Fiance, & hys prude ssende, " bat a sory ' chyrchegon * yclolle hym make arys banue wende. ' Des ant hmc duo carmina in Ar. * The tonne of Roane Ar. in quo tamen Reyncs mox infra. 3 Scorne Ar. * la childe bedde Ar. * For the scorne that he him sende, and swor a non his othe Ar. 6 Churche gaDge, and bryng me oute of bende, dr, "i Ciiurche gange Ar. 8 Lege, ycholle. Vore- 380 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Vorewajd be huld hym wel, vorto heruest anon, bo he sey bat feldes were foi of r corne cchon, Al be contreye foi of frut, wan he mygt mest harm do, He let gadery hys knygtes & hys squyers al so, And bat were hys wyues, bat he wyb bym ladde. He wende hym in to France, & be contreye ouer spraddc, And robbede & destrude, hym ne mygte non byng lette. be gret cyte Of 2 Medes subbe afure be sette, Vor me ne mygte non 3 cbyrchegong wyb out lygte do. be cyte he barnde al clene, * & a chyrche al so Of oure leuede, bat berinne was, & an ancre Code's spouse, bat nolde vor non byng fie out of byre house. And mony man & womman ek ber vel in messchance. So bat a sory * cbyrchegong yt was to be kyng of France. 8 Kyng Wyllam wende agen, bo ah bys Was ydo, And bygan sone to grony & to febly al so, Vor trauayl of be foul asagt, & voir he was feble er, And perauntre vor wreche al so, vor he dude so luj^er bere. bo lie com. to Reyris agen, syke be lay sone*, Hys leobys loked hys slat, as ber rygt was to done, * Corne and frnyte echon, As in tyme that he" myght most harme do, Ar. - Medant Ar. " Churche gang Ar. -?And -the dmrclre- a-lso- Of oure lady, aud an ancras there in hure house, That nolde nat oute ther of as a trewe spouse. Arid many men and women Ar. s Churche gang Ar. 6 At whiche assaut to negh the fuy re William kyng went, Wher thourgh, & of the hote sonne, a maladye hym hente. And some sayne, as* with'Tiis Lors he ¦^asleoTa dyche combe, With his sadel's arson he brused his grete wombe, So that into Nor. raandye he muste a yene tho To the cite of Roane, whenne he hadde i doo, "TV reste his tra. Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 381 And yseye & seyde al so, bat he ne mygte of scapyeriogt. ber was sone sorwe y nou among bys men ybrogt. And he hym sulf deol y nou & sorwe made al so, And namelyche vor be ' muche wo bat he adde anerbeydo* He * wep on God vaste ynou, & cryde 3 hym mylce & ore, And byhet, gyf he moste lybbe, bat he nolde mysdo nan more. Er he ssolde bat abbe ydo, vor yt was bo * to" late ynou. Atte laste, bo be ysey, bat toward bys ende he drou, Hys 5 byquide in bys manere he made byuore bys deb. Wyllam, be rede kyng, bys sone al Engelond he byqueb be gongere al hys porchas ; ac, as lawe was & wone, Normandye hys erytage he>gef*hys eldoste sone Roberd be Courtese ; & Henry hys gongosle bo He byqtieb hys tresour, vor he nadde sones nanmo. He bet dele ek poueremen muche of bys tresorye, Vor he adde so muche of bem ynome in robberye. 6 Chyrchen he let rere al 50, & tresour be gef y nou, To rere vp the chyrche in France, bat be barnde wyb wou. trauailhi, and for he was fe. "ble er, And perauenture for wreche that he dude there. Thp he came to Roane so seke he lay, His leches loked his a stat, and by his water say, That by no maner way he ne myght a scape noght Ar. 1 Grete Ac. * Wepte Ar. ¦ " His Ar. 4 Deest Ar. ' Bi- queste to fore he made in this maner. Robert Cnrthose his eldest sone, vnthoukes as hit were, Aqd strayned by his counseill, he bequath Nor mandye. Wel ofte this Ro bert to his fader had do gret anuye. William Rous alle Engelonde he by quath eke thoo. To Henry Beauclere his moder's heritage and his trespure also. He lete to poure men eke dele muche of his tresourye Ar. 6 Churchen also let he a rere, and yaf hem tresoure inough, Whiche er to fore in Fraunce he hadde 382 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle, be prisons he het of Engelond delyuery echone, And of Normandye also, bat ber ne leuede none. bo deyde be in be ger of grace a bousend, as yt was, And four score & seuehe, as God gef bat cas. 1 He was kyng of Engelond four & tuenty ger al so, And due ek of Normandye fyfty ger & tuo. Of elde he was * nyne & fyfty ger, bo God bym gef sudt cas. be 3 morwe after Seynte Marye day be latere ded was, In be abbey of ? Cam ybured was, bys kyng ; And Henry, bys 5 gonge sone, was at hys buryng. Ac nober of hys ober soncs ; * ver in France bo Roberd Courthese was in sorwe 7 and In wo. And Wyllam anon so hys fader Engelond bym byqueb, He nolde nogt abyde vorte hys fader deb, Ac wende hym out of Normandye anon to Engelonde, Vorto nyme hastelyche seysyne of hys londe, bat was hym leuere, ban bys fader were. So bat ber 8 nas of bys sones bote be gonge Henry bere. hadde i brent with wough. The Prisoners of Engelond he let deliuere echon,' Ar. 1 In the xxi. yere of the kyngdom of Engelonde also, And his duchye of Normandy fyfty yere a twoo Ar. Sf rectius quidem xxi. * Rectissime, tit mihi videtur. Videsis Notas Sf Spicilegiam nostrum ad Guil. Neubrigensem, p. 685. J Id est, Septembris ix°. 4 Came buried Ar. s yongeste Ar. 6 For Ar. " And in werre also Ar. 8 Was none of his spnes bute the yongeste there Ar. Wyllam Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 383 TVyLLAM be rede kyng. anon so he adde tydynge Of hys fader debe, be let bym crouny to l>ynge. Byuore Myhelmasse he was ycrouned bre dawes & nan mo. Of be erchebyssop of Canterbury, Laiifianc bat was bo. At Westmynstre yt was ydo wytoute long tarynge. Vor yt nas nogt ' fourtene nygt after hys l fader burynge. 3 He sende, as quyclyche as he mygte, hys sonde Holde obes bat men hym suore boru al Engelond. Vor of hys eldore brober lie was euere in doute, So bat me suor bym holde * obes in to al bat lond aboute. Fram Londone to Wynchestre he wende to se bere be fayre ' halle, & ober bold, bat hys fader let rere. Of hys fader tresorye, bat was in bulke stude, He delde vor hys soule, as he adde hym sulf ybcde. To chyrche & to pouere men he gef vorst, as be ssolde, To abbeyes & to prioryes largylyche of hys golde. And .to * eche chyrche of be lond vyf ssyllyng me bere, And to eche contreye an hondred pound, to dele pouere men bere. 7 Vbr me nom er mucbedel of pjouere men god. And be sone s gut, bey he were ssrevve, pen fader wel vndcr- stod. ' Fourtenyght Ar. * Fa der's Ar. " That he ne sende a none wide a boute his sonde, And toke othes of men thorgh all Engelond Ar. * Othes alle the londe a boute Ar. i Abbey, and other werk, that Ar. 6 Euery Ar. " For the fader hit hadde i nome of poui-e Ar. 8 Though lu. ther he were, the fader he vnderstode Ar. Vor 384 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Vor strengbe of body &wysdom our Louerd ' bym here sende, And atte bygynnynge bulke tuo to God al he yt wende, be wule be erchebyssop Lanfranc brogt hym to god red, Ac to vnele he yt turnde al, bo Lanfranc was ded. Ar bys fader wonne Engelonde longe he was ybore, And 2 gut Roberd Courthese be eldore brober byuore. 3 Stalworde he was & hardy, & god knygt boru al byng, In batayle & in tornemens er 4 ban" he were kyng. be vorste ger bat be was kyng, worre gret & strong Bytuene hym & Roberd Courthese ber sprong. Vor s muche of bys lond wyllede Roberd Courthese To be kyng of Engelond, gyf hii mygte chese. And vor Roberd was eldore & eyr, gret folc be sende ' also Fram Normandye to worry, & hys fader byquide vn do. Ac be vyf 7 pors of Engelond kepte hem in be see, And adrentte 8 & slowe, bat hii come namore age. Frenssemen in Engelond ber were bo mony on, Byssoppes & knygtes, myd kyng Wyllam eehon. ' be byssop Ode wyb hem was so wel, ych vnderstonde, bat be toe hym poer, as wo seyf>, of al Engelond, ' Him adde i Iende, And thulke twoo yere at bygyn- nyng to Godeward he wende. For Erchebishop Lanfranc him brought to gode rede. But to vnell'he tourned, thoo Lanfranc was dede Ar. * Yut was Robert Ar. " Wil. liam strong and hardy was thourgh oute all thyng, Ar. 4 Deest Ar. 5 Muche Peple olAr. 6 Thoo Fro Norman dye to ward Engelond, his fader's by quest for to vndo Ar. '/ Portz in Engelong kepte hym in Ar. 8 Hem and slow, Ar. 9 Als his Eme bishop Ode, as Ich vnder- stande, Hadde most power of any in this lande, Ar. And Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 385 And.be bygan myd treson mest to be hys fo, , "And to drawe to hym be hey men, bat in poer were y do. As in, be ger of. grace a bousendger yt was. And four score j& eygte, bat bygan by* cas. In Leynte in be god, tyme bys false" byssop Ode, * And Frensse knygtes of Engelond, of bys treson vnderstode, And heymen monye of .Engelond were ek at her rede. Anon after Ester hii by gonne hem s to sprede, And robby abouje & berne, & * courtes adoun caste, And wo so eny castel adde,. astored hym wel vaste. A byssop, bat het Geffray, & obere heymen ' mo (bat be castel wuste of Bcustawe> such castel as was bo,) Babe & al be contreye hii robbede myd her route, . "And in be ober alf Berkeleye, $; be contreye al aboute, And be casteLof Brystowe astgrede7 vaste ynou. be barons of Herefbrde dude also gret wou, And bat folc of Ssropssyre, nome hem al to rede, And robbede Wurcestre ssyre in lengbe & in brede, And al be * contreye aboute to be toune rygt. 9 Ac hii founde in be,' toune mony a good knygt, , Vor" be byssop of Wurcestre, bat was ba Seyn Wulst,an, 10 In be castel was of Wurcestre, & knygtes mony one. 1 And withdrow" other moo fram hym fpr to gpo Af. * And other Frenssh in , En- gelond, of treson , snderstode Ar- 3 For, to Ar. 4 Cpun. treyesa gaste, Ar. 'Moo, The Castell kepte. at. Bri- stowe, suche as hit was thoo Ar. 6 And also the. Toune Vol. II. of ..Berkeley, Ar. '• Welle i now. And the Barons of Hertfordshire dude also grete wow, And the folk of Shorp- shire, for hii nome alle on rede, Ar. 8 Countreyes ¦ Ar. 9 But to harmy the toune ne hadde they no myght. 'For Af. "? Was bi take the c "castell, 38t5- Rbbert'of Gloucester's' Chronicle'. Seyn Wolston cryde on God, ,tb ssnlde hem frarribe* fon. be knygtes wel yaimerJ wehde hemout anon,- And, boru bone of Seyrf Wolston, &boru GodeV grace, Hii slowe & ouercome vyf bousehd'in be place. 1 Auarde ber was by Norbe'i,. bai; robbede al so vaste be contreye of Norbhcririberlond;. & be tounes adoun caste. Anober ber'wasTiidre Soubybat Leycestressyre Robbede & destrudey ? & NorJihamtessy*ei> So bat Engelond was vol- 3 of eche wrecchede, • And to sobe come^ bat' Sey fat Edward byuore bys dep^sede; be byssop Ode,.- Jfet was of pys< wbwe cHeuenteyri, In Kent' was & robbede pere myd al bys meyrie* Kyng Wyllam'ysey, Jfai- he wto 4 in alle sorwe ybrogtj And, bote he adde help of bys men, By*-' fore nas» ryig"t nogt, To bys barons he 6 serlde aboute, bat be 7 mest trusteto, And bede hem helpe hym inhysnede, ober hys poerWas ydo. He byhet hem be best lawes, bat euere were y founde, * To be hys helpe agen hys fon, bat he nere ybrogt to grounde; be heymen of Engelondy to abbe lier* laWesf gode, Come to hym in bys nede, bo hii 9 bym vnderstode. casteU, to warde fro these foon. Sey-rit' Wulsto* therine cried on God, to shefde'hetivfrowdb. A fewe" men of aMe oute" theiine gonne jgoo, Ahd thOurgh the bone Ar. 1 An host there was by Northe, Ar. * And e^e Northatmlpton' shire Ar. " Of care and woo. Seyfit" Ed- Watde's proph'ecye to sothe cotne was thoo Ar. 4 Alle in sorow i brought,! Ar. s Fare was alle nought, Ar. * Sent Ar. 7 Most Ar. * And freo huiityng and of Taillages for to be vn bounde. The heigh meti Ar. 9 This pro hym in Ar. And Rob,ert»of' Glouces,tcr?s.Chronic(Ief. 387 And myd gret osfe wende, varbp &,jnyd ' stourd,p mode, Toward be cartel of Roucestre, to sechp'be'f bysspp Qde> Tobe castel; of TOuebrugge by be wey.bii come, And asayled hym vaste ynou, &afte4ftste, hyni,npme>, bo tolde me, batybyssoip,Ode-a,t Eenneseye, was, bys ost wende buderward myd wel quyp pas, And byseged ben castel syxr,3 wou j^e, wel vaste, ^ ,So bat be folc wybynne golde hern,atte, laste, And pe byssop Ode vorst;, bo be kyng bymvondj., He made 'hym, vor hys-treson,, vorsuery.e.Engelond. Ac vor be castel of Roucqstre^ &; be tpqne,al so, In be byssop pe's poer was, 8$ bys folc berynne ydo, be kyng hym made b.uder4wpude,, myd hys owe falptornake, pet folq,, bat berynne was, be castel hy/n- vp, take. bo pe byssop & be kynge's men to Rqucestre come, Hii wybynne lurnde agen, &; al hem, nome, And be kynge's men eehoPfin^strpng prison Ccisjbe, * bo bet word to be kyng come), buderward he. heyde vajste, 'And ben castel 6 bysette, $, hem wybynne aga.$te,. So bat hii golde be kyng vp be castel atte. laste. And be kyng. hem. made echone, bat he berynne founde, And be byssop Ode also vorsuerye Engelond. bo hii were out of, Engelond, hii were bynrpe ybrogt, And al bat heldcwyj* hem er,, vor ber poer na.s nogt. 1 Egre mode, Ar. xDee$t Ar. i Wokes Ar + Wende, pees for to make, That the, folke the rather shulde the castelle vp take. Whenne the kyng^'st men., with $e bisshc-p to Rojichestre come, Hii with. inne^qarae, oute, apd hem alte in, nome Ar. s- Thp. the. kyng hurde this, he hieghed thu- der faste, Ar. 6 Byseged, Ar. c 2 bo 388 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. bo be kyrig was aboue, of notbyng he nas aferd. He suor, he wolde awreke be of hys brober Roberd. To Normandye myd hys ost in gret wrabbe be gan wende, Yorte wjrnne Normandye, & hys brober ssende. Hys brober gadered hys poer, & agen hym vaste stode, So bat be worre was strong, & gret ssedyng of blod. Hii acordede atte laste in suche fourme bere, bat wober of hem tueye lenger alyue were, bat he ssolde be obere's eyr of al bat he adde, gyf he of hym sulue non ober eyr bygyte nadde. bys acord was vaste ymade boru stronge treube ynou. Vaste yplygt in eyber syde, bat non ne wyb drou. So bat bys tueye breberen gode frend were bo rygt- boru gode fOurme, & vaste ynou boru strong treube yplygt, be wule hii were in Normandye & Engelond so bare, Macolom, kyng of Scotlond, berof was yware, And Edgar also Abelyng. vor myd gret poer * Hii wende her in to Engelond,' & robbede ver & nere. And barnde & destrude be Norb contreye vaste. ber of com to Normandye be tydyngeatte laste. be kyng & Roberd hys brober a her beyre poer nome, And wyb gret ost & strengbe * ynou" to Engelond come. And sette vaste agen hem, so bat in lute stounde Her poer of Scotlond was ybrogt to grounde. po wende vorb Roberd Courtese & Edgar Abelynu-, And acordede Macolom, & Wyllam oure kyng. So pat bys Macolom, nere he no so prout, Dude kyng Wyllam omage, & by com bys man al out. ' He Ar. * Her power bothe nome, Ar. s Deest. Ar. An Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 380 Arid acordede hii were foure, as vorst Wyllam ourekyngj And kyng Macolom & Roberd & Edgar Abelyng. bo * by leuede Roberd aim est vorto Cristemasse Myd hys brober in Engelond j bote tueye dawes lasse. Ac in to Wygt he wende bo, * & subbe to Normandye/ And Edgar Abelyng s myd hym, as in god compaynyei po adde Wyllam our kyng in pes al Engelond, And to 4 hynr vaste yoblyged be kyng of Scotlond. Luber he was arst ynou, & wel wors be was bo : He dude abbe|es & prioryes in be lond 5 wel wo. Hys strengbe & hys wysdorri, as ychabbe er ysedi He turnde al to lubernesse, bo Lanfranc was ded; Tueye luber lackes he adde wyb hym al out, In ' spenynge he was foi large, in herte borU out proiit. Vor hys prute he ne tolde of God, rie of mon rygt nogtj Ne after no red he nolde do, bote after hys luber bogt. 7 Mylce ber nas myd hym non, * ne after no meok hede^ Ac as a terant tormentor, in speche & eke in dede. Vor he was so foi large, ? as robbeour he was, And destrude al bat lond, bat no gode alonde has. ber ne ssolde non mete ne drynke, bote yt were ouerderej Come in bys wombe, ne clob oUer hys suere. 1 Byleft Ar.. i And so into Ar. i With him in on cpinpany Ar. 4 Him pbleged was the kyng Ar. J Muche woo Ar. 6 Spendyng he was ful large, and his hert was to prout. Litelle tolde he^ of God, 'and of man righ nought, , Ar. 1 Mercy Ar. 8 Ne o- ther mekehede, But as with a tourmentour, Ar 9 That robbour he by cam, And strok ed many trewe men, and her gpde nam Ar. e S Warine' 300 Robert 'of i Gloucester's ^Ghrottiele. W&nne'yt corne byuore'w'ym, he Wolde* beMf ntfgt, Nere yt - no so lute1 Worb, bote ft were dere-ybdgt. As hys chamberleyn hynrbrogte, as herOs^day, 1 A morwe' vbrto' We'rye, a peyre hose Of say, He esste, "Wat hii costenede'? bre-ssyllyngj'Tpe oberseyde. " Fy a debles," quab be-kyrig,'" 3 wo sey so vyi dede, " Kyng to wery« eny clob, bote yt Costenede more? " ? Bu a- peyre of a marc, * ober bou-ssalt" be acoiye sOre. A worse peyrb of ynOu be obei* s&bbe hym' brogte, And seyde, 6| hii were vor a marc, & vnnebe so ybogfe. " ge bei amy," quab be ky%, 'ber were wel ^bogt, " In bys mariere serfldine, obferlboune ssalt hie-serlje'nogt. be tour be made *of > LotfdOne, Wyllam bys proute kyng, And teuche balteof* LondOne, bafso rrmche was boru all byrig. bo be to bys halle com, ,hechydde& made hym' w rob, Vor he*was-byipe halueridel to lute,'hesuor bys bp. Hym ne TOgte hou he speride, ne Wat, lie was so proute. beruore he destrude * bat lond vOlc al out. So bat, in hys tivberriesse, to Gloucestre he'weri'de, And bere, bey 'yt to lute'Were, syknesse God hym sehde. In I'eger of grace1 a boilserid'& four sCofe'& brefrene Hyt was, bat he lay syk' at Gloucestre, ycli Wene. 1 Neuer so myche worthe, Ar. * A paire hosyn to do him on, as to him by lay Ar. 5 Wher seeth me suche dede, A kyng to werie Ar. 4"By *Ar. i Or rewc hit shalle the sore Ar. 6 Hii costened half marc, ' but so yut Was hit nought. Ye belamy, quod he tho, -suehe byconreth-ar kyng. In this maner serue me, for hit is- my likyng. The tour of Londpne he made swythe strong nvyd' alle, xAnd also of Westmynstre the muchelle large halle. Tho Ar. 7 With Robbery the londe Yolke al out 'Ar. ro Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. $91 po dradde he sore '/>f be deb, & bys mysdede pfbpgtesere, And byhet God, bat he nolde be, luber mon narnore, Ac bat he wolde to, Engelond, & to holy chyrche, also, Be gode, >& amende bat.he^adde mys $0. Kyng Macolqn hurde tejLleb?1! 01* m Scojjpnde, To hym to Gloucestre sone he sende hjs.sande, And bed hym,, vor bys? treuriesse>,,be yQrewarde^abJbe^injbpgt, bat bytnene jbem was,janade,, batbe ne breke,yfc nogt. be kyng hym. sende j^rd agen,(.to be trywejSb hende, 2 Ant bed hym alsauf to hym to Gloucestre wende, And made hym oblygacyou, & costage bym gan sende, pat he ssolde to hym come alsauf in eche ende. Macolom, y.Ieuede.bys, & to GJoucjestije.be, weyr aprae. Ac be kyng he yond in such ppynt, bojhq buder come, bat he ne myg^e'Wyb bym, speke,, (agenj he w-ende , wrpb, berof he wolde be. awreke,- he s^orejiysirapre pb. Vaste he garkede bys .gper,,,]?p;he_,Gome to Scotlond, And wende agen, to wprryhere vpJEngelopd. And robbede & barnde, ,& spne,j boru Gpde'si, sonde} He vond harden contre, in Nojr^hprnbei; Ipnde. Vor be erl of Nprbbpmberlpnd, syre, Roberd de Moubrey , ,Nas nobyng wel ypayd myd kyng Macolorne's pley, _]?at he dcstrude so hys lond, he-garkede vaste Hys poer,.. & gaf; hym batayle atte .laste. ^jerewa&kyig-Maeolom aslawe,-& Edward hys sone id so, bat was 4 hys sone &" bys eyr, & muche of hys folc £erto. *. |0f, his, deth, ,. aind,, repented, jsqre, , Ar. • aTroiithe, Ar. c4 be &9£ Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle', be tybynge isone com to Margarete hys wyf, bat bobe y re louerd & yre sone ylore adde bat lyf. Heo let byre ssryue & hosely, & vnnebe ogt et Ar heo, vor del, & sorwej & anguysse, bat lyf let. bo was Wyllam oure kyngal quyt of bulke fon, Vor ber ne ' byleuede at laste of her chyldryn nogt on. Mold pat was pe gode quene, bat euere worb in munde. Vor boril'hyre com Engelond agen Vorst to rygt kunde. Kyng Wyllam keuerede agen to hele al to sone, An dude * alonde wowe y nou, as hys wone was to done. A God pope was bulke tyme at Rome, bat het Urban, bat preched of be creyserye,' & creysede mony * man. berupre he sende prechors boru al Crystendome, And hym sulf4 abesalf^be mouns, & to France" come,- And prechede so vaste & wyb so gret wysdOme, bat aboute in eche londe be croys vaste me nome.- In be ger of grace * a bousend & syxtenej bys grete creyserye bygan, bat longe was yserie. ,Of so muche folc nyme be croys, ne to be holy londe go, Me ne sey no tyme byuore, ne subbe nabemo. Vor sulue wummen 6 ne byleuede, bat hii ne wende buder vaste, Ne gong folc, bey hii feble were, be wule be veage ylaste. 1 Bylafte of hure children but one. That was Molde the goude Ar. * Alle the londe Ar. ' A man. Ther of he sende Ar. ' 4 Into Fraunce a thessi.de the uiountes com, Ar. 5 Lege cum Ar. Ml. xx iiii. and xvie. 6 Nojde bU leue, that buder hii ne -wende fastj And yong folke and feble alsoj! while the viag'e laste Ar. So Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 393 So pat Roberd Courtehese buderward hys herle caste$ And, among obere gode knygtes; ne bogte nogt be be laste,; He wende here to Engelond vor be creyscrye, And leyde ' Wyllam bys brober to wedde Normandye^ And borwede Of bym bervppe an hdndred bousend marc,- To wende wyb to be holy lond, & bat was somdel stare; He adde " aist due of Normandye nye ger ybe, bo he adde 3 bys tresPur, he gan hyin bet byse. be erl Roberd of Flaundres myd hym wende al so$ And Eustas erl of Boloyne, & moiiy god knygt bertO; ber wende be due Geffray, & be erl Baldewyne berej And be ober Baldewyne al sOj bat noblemen were, And kynges subbe alle bre of be holylohd. be erl SteUene de Bleys wende ekj'bat' gret poer adde an bonde; And Roberde's soster Courtehese yspoused adde to wyue. bere wende gut ober knygtesj be beste bat were alyue, As be erl of Seyn Gyle be gode Reymond, And Nel be kynge's brober of France, & be erl Beaumond^ And Tancred hys neueu, & be byssop al so Of Podys, &,syre Hue be grete erl bere to, And folc al so wyboute tale, of al bys Weste ende Of Engelond, & of Fiance, buderward gOnne wehde, Of Normandye, of Denemarch, ofNorbweye, of Brutayrfe, Of Walys & of yrlonde, of Gasconye & of Spayne, Of Prouence and of Saxonye, and of Alemayne, Oft Scoclond and of Grece, of Rome and Aquitayrie : 1 To .William Ar.. t Er Ar. ..sHis Tresoure, he dede him home a yee Ar. 4 Sici \ Me 394 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Me ne hurde neuere batiGed so vayt grace anerbcsendc, bat somiuche folc at o tyme to be holy? londe wende. bys folc at Constantynoble byuore be- emperour Alex, .bat. was bo, come v/jp gret, honour. Subbe hii dude hem in see, & aryuede atle; laste. Subbe, be toun of Nyce hii bysegede vaste. ' Hii departede.vorst * herof as in foure partye, And at eche of be foure gates sette an compannye. Vor Robberd Courtehese, myd be poer. bat. was hys, And be, erl ofFlandre's were yset at be 3iEst, gate y.wys. Atte Norb gate, was Tancred & ]je duo Beaumond, Atte Soub gate was be byssop1 & be; gode erl Remond : And be due Geffrey & Steuene de Bleys al so, .And sy re Hue be grete erl, atte West- gate were ydo. Hii bygonne an holy Tbore's ene ben toun asaly, bere Stal vvardly che & vaste ynou, noblemen es^yt were. Hyt bogte,;bat,aLbe eyr aboue vol -was of cry anon, And bat* me ne mygte,npgt yse bote barewen & flon, And stones out of luberen, -,& pf magnates al so. Muche was be s manslagt,, bat bere wasydo. "r Ther gonne .. parte . her, hoste ferst in iiii. parties, And atte' the yates of the Toune' sette her company Psalmes pro vastyng in Ar. i By toke Ar. d 3 Vor 40§ Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Vor be was best knygt of idle, ' non felawe hii nolde loke. be byssop of Pod ye be verb ost hii toke, And syre Wyllam de Mounpeyllers^e vyfte hii toke rygt^ Syre Rychard * be PrUyce & Tancred be gode knygt. be syxtp be erl of Rusynele & be erl Beumond al so Hii bytoke to gouerny, & bp al bys was ydo, In honour of be holy gost be seuene hii made bo, And made hereof cheuenteyn syre Reymond & namo. Syre 3 Reynond with gode compaynye ben toun wuste by hynde, bat her men, gyf hii nede adde; recet mygte fynde. bo al was prest, as hii wolde, hii blessede hem echon, And toke hem al to * God grace, & to batayle wende annon. bere was- gret criynge on God, & mony a wepynd eye Of hem, bat byleuede atom^ & be batayle yseyey 5 Of byssopes, & prestes, & men of relygyon, And clerkes bat bere were myd god deuocyon Reuested hem in.6 chyrche, & ou God gonne crye, Wepynde 7 wyb processyon, & songe.be Letanye, And ober gode orysons, to bydde vor hem alle, And vor to see be batayle stode vppe be toun walle, pe heben men in her alf so glade ner neuere, As hii were vor bys batayle, in so gret hope hii were. bo hii were al gare in her alf, & Cristyne men come, be ssrewen in be wynd alf gret plente of * hey nome * To him me nolde loke No felawe. And the bisshop the iiiie. host hii by toke Ar. 1 De Pruiees Ar. i Ray. monde Ar. 4 Godde's Ar. * For pro of in Ar. ' 6 Church. es, and to God Ar. 7 A pro cession, Ar. * Heth Ar. And Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 407 And sette * agen be Cristenemen afure in ech ende, bat be smoke bere of hem ssolde bobe stencbe & blende. Ac our Lord, bat myd hqm was, bygan be wynd wende, And be * smoke, bat hii made, Cristene men to ssende, Rygt in her owe teb bygan hem euene sende, So bat yt was ber owe harm bat hii lete tende. be Crysten men vp hem come myd gode ernest y nou, And vor be smoke so euene in her teb drou, And vor our Lord hym sulf was bere myd hys ' sonde, be ssrewen nadde no poer non wule to at stonde. A wel vayr compaynye al so pere com Of holy men, bat wule bolede martyrdom, Vppe vayre wyte, stedes, & in vayre armure also. Seyn George be vorste was, & ober martyrs berto. Of montaynes hii come adoun, *dryue vaste ynou 5 In eyber alf be compaynye vp be ssrewen drou, bat hii were to grounde aslawe, & hii flowe, bat mygte. bus our Lord & Seyn George * her fon coube dygfe. be Cristene men leyde euere on, & slowe euere to grounde, Al clene be ssrewen were ouercome in a stounde. Anon after Mydsomer bys batayle ydo was, A Seyn Petre's eue ywys, as God gef bat cas, - In be ger of grace a bousend & four score & eygtetene. Betere batayle bere aboute nas neuere y seye, ych wene. And amrayl bere bysyde, bat an castel wuste, geld hym vp to Cristene men, bo he nuste warto truste, .J Hit a fuyre a ye the Chri- .stene host euery ende, Ar. Smorthef Ar. * Hond, Ar. 4 Driuyng Ar. ¦? And in 2 eyther half of the company vpon the threwen \J. shrewen] drough, Ar. s This hoste couthe Ar. d 4 And 408 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. And aueng Cristendom, & o>er castles al so Me geld hem vp wel astored, po al bys was ydo. So bat bys Cristene men so wel astored nere Of armur, ne of tresour neuere, as hii bo were. * po garked hii her ost, vorb vorto wende Toward Jerusalem, as God hem wolde sende." Byuore Seyn Andrew's day to * Marra atte laste Hii come! wyb her poer, & 3 asayled vaste. An quoynte tour hii lete make eueryldel of tre, Vp four weoles ? also strong as hii mygte be. * s Vpe weoles yt was ydryue, & gode knygtes berynne. Hii asaylede so ben toun myd strengbe & myd gynne, be * endlef be day of December be toun hii wonne so, And byleuede berynne vorte 7 mydewynter were ydo„ Vor bere was a stryf bytuene be erl Beumond "Ofthe toun of Antyoche & syre Reymond, Weber ssolde abbe be cyte ? so bat hii byleuede bere A monbe & four dawes, ar hii acorded were. So muche honger hii adde bere, ar hii be toun lete, bat hii ' sode be Saracens, & bat flesse ete. be vourtebe day of Jenyuer vor honger banue hii wende, And our *,° Lorde wel bytyme bote berof hem sende. ' Tho bylefte the Chri. stene in thulke countre there Fort Alle halwen tyde, as men that mastres were. Tho yarkede hii hur hoste, forlhe for to wende,. To gete the bourghe of Jerusalem, as God wulde grace sende Ar. 1 Maura Ar. * Ilyne sailed fast. A tour hii let makie alle tp geder of tree, Ar. 4 As strong as Mt Ar. s Upon Ar. 6 xi. day Ar. 7 Christes- masse Ar. 8 Fpr the Toune Ar. 9 Sode Saracenes, and hure fiesshe ete Ar. I0 Lorde bote ther of sone ganne hem sende Ar. Vor Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 409 Vor hii wonne tueye castles, bat muche gode was yhne ydo, And subbe be toun ' Zephayle, vol pf gode al so. And in be valeye of * Desem an ryche castel hii nome. To be castel of Arches in Feuerer subbe hii come, And byseged * hym vaste myd strengbe & myd gynne bre monbes, ar hii mygte myd strengbe 4 hym wynne. bere was Aunsel of Rypemqnd a gode knygt to debe ydo, And syre Wyllam Pycard, & mony obere al so, ' bere hii helde her Ester, verrore hii wende po. Wanne be castel y wonne was, & tounes wonne mo, be kyng of Camele made pays, & an amy ray I also, And geue hem gret * garyson, hem no arm to do. So hii wende to Try pie, & ben toun nome, And slowe ' so" monye Saracens, bo hii buder come, bat alle be wateres in ech ende aboute be * toun pere, And dyches and puttes, rede of blode were. * Vyfly hors of prys be kyng of pe londe, And vyfty bousend besans, he sende hem by hys sonde, bat hii lete hys lond in pese, & hii vawe yt nome. So bat in be monbe of Jun to Jerusalem hii come, be senetie day IO as in'pe monbe anon hii bygonne Vor to sette " her folc arygt, bat be cyte were y wonne. Hii sette Roberd Courtehose, & hys poer al so, As her best knygt, in be Est syde, be asaut vorto do ; 1 Ot Wepenhale, Ar. * E- dam a riche castelle Ar. 5 Hyne fast with queyntyse and with gynne Ar. 4 Hine Ar. s Thus hii helde hur Es ter, no fer ne wende hii thoo Ar. 6 Geresone, Ar. t Deest Ar. 8 Tounes Ar. 9 xv. hors Ar. I0Of the moneth Ar. " Kure wardes, thai hit were wonne Ar. be 410 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. be due Godefray & Tancred in be West ende y wys; In be Soub alf syre ReymPnd, as be hul of Syon ys. be cyte hii asaylyde myd strengb & myd gynrie, Ac so strong he was, bat hii ne mygte, nogt lygtlyehe come berynne. * Hii lete hem gynnes make, as vorst of be toure Of tre, ymade strong ynou vppe( weoles foure. A gyn, bat me clupe;> sowe, hii made ek wel strange Muche folc inne vor to be, bobe wyde and long. In Roberd syde Courtehose, & be due Godefray, As yt vel in be monbe of Jun, be vyftebe day, Hii asaylyde bys cyte z myd bys tour wel vaste, And wylde fur wyb pych & grece wyb gynnes in caste, And vorbarnd 3 hous & ober, & muche folc therto, And God sende wynd god ynou, bat be bet yt was y do ; bat wybynne was sorwe ynou, & her folc wanede vaste. 4 be Cristyne were al atte walle, so bat atte laste - 5 Myd landren hii clommep, & J?en toun nome, And slowe be ssrewen to grounde, bo hii buder come. In be temple Salomon ten bousend hii slowe, In eche stede bare hii were mony & ynowe. And somme adoun of be walles velle vor fere, And debrusede ober adrente, so bat hii ded were. 1 Gynnes hii lete make, and of tree grete toures, For to sette vp to the walles, that yede vp wheles foure. En gines, that me clepethe sowes, they makedalso strong, Ar. 'With hure toures faste, Ar. ' Houses, & muche Ar. 4 The Christene went so neigh the walles, Ar. s With laddres vp they clombe, and thane toune nome, Ar. So Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 41 1 So bat Gode's knygtes made pq as at ene Jliesu Criste's cyte of be deuele's lymes clene. bo hii were al aslawe, bat hii ne founde qnyc non, bo bodes hii gaderede, & vorbarnde hem echon, 1 Vor stench wanne hii rodede, so bat hii were Wyboute in. clannesse al out maystres pere. bo wende hii to sepulcre, bat God was on y do, And a to'' ober gode holy stedes, bat hii mygte come to. Vor wan so muche trauayl hii adde y soffred er, ' 3 Andbohourede be gode holy stedes with gode wylle bere, Wyb wepyng & deuocyon, so bat none alyue Ne ssolde telle be teres, bat hii lete so ryue, bo hii adde yworine bo, as wo seyb, bat lond, Hii bogte vor to make bys vast in Cristyne men hond, And among hem al an gode knygt to chese, bo chose hii, as vor be beste body, Roberd Courthose To be kyng of be holy lond, & chef of 4 Cristedom, And me wende boru s Gode's wylle such grace hym to come. Roberd hym bybogte bo, & gan hym vnderstonde, bat yt was wel gret trauayl, to be kyng of bulke lond, And somdel toward Engelond be ber al so hys bogt, War boru he seyde 6 al out, bat he nolde be yt nogt, And vorsoc yt al out in luber tyme ych drede, 7 -Vor gode wat afterward he nadde in non dede. 1 For stenche whenne they roted, that the heire corrupt nere. Thus were the Chri- stene theiine mastres there. Thehne visited they the se. pulcre Ar. *DeestAr. 3 Hii honoured Ar. 4 Cristendome, Ar. s Godde's grace suche wille to him come Ar. 6 Oute right, fie nolde be kyng nought, Ar. t For good happe afterwarde he ne hadde in no nede Ar. Vor 4J2 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Vor be best knygt of be ' worl he was yholdebo, s And' gode hap afterward ne com hym neuere mo. * Vor God wanne wolde, bat he were bere in hys sernyse, And he vorsoc yt vor trauayl, * he ne dude nogt as be wysei He was Wyllamme's sone bastard, as ych abbe ysed er y lome, And wel y wox, ar bys fader to Engelond come. bycke man he was ynou, bote he nas nogt wel long. Quarry he was, & wel ymade vorto be strong. beruore hys fader iu'a tyme i ysey stourdy dede,. be wule he was gong, & by huld, & bes wordes seyde, ** By be vp rysyng of God, Robelyn ' me ssal ysey " Courtehose my gong sone stal ward knygt gut be. Vor he was somdel schort, 7 he clupede bym Courthose, And he ne mygte neuer * eft'' afterward bulke name ' lese. Ober lak nadde he nogt, bote he nas nogt wel long. He was I0 queyte of conseyl & speche, & of body strong. 11 Neuere gut man ne mygte in Cristendom, ne in paynyme, In batayle hym bryng adoun of hys hors non tyme. Vor be prowesse of hys body, & vor be kynge's sone was, Ichose he was be hexte prince of be world vor bys cas. And he yt vorsoc vn hendelyche, & in vayre manere non, To segge be was vn wurbe berto, " ac vor trauayl one. » Worlde Ar. 2 Ac goude Ar. J For whenne God wolde, that he Ar. 4 He dude nat as the wyse Ar. s Seigh his stourdy dede, Ar^ 6 yut me shall i see Curthose my sone here a stalworthe knyght be Ar. i Me Ar. 8 Deest Ar. 9 Lose Ar. IO L. queynte, cum Ar. " Neuer man in Paynym londe, ne in Chri stendom, myght Ones bryng him doune of his hors in tourment ne fight. For the pruesse Ar. " As for Ar. beruor Robert or Gloucester's Chronicle. 413 beruor our Lord yt vnderstod, as ge ssulle yhure, And sende hym reste in prison, be wule bys lyf wolde dure. * bet folc bo in Jerusalem be due Godfray tok, And made hym kyng" of be lond, bo Roberd yt venok. In be ger of grace a bousend • & nyenetene & nyene bys stalwarde Cristene folc bys sworre brogte to fyne. After be due Godfray Baldewyne was kyng, And after bym be ober Baldewyne, gode knygt boru al byng. And after hym Gaufryd due of Aungeo, And Gaufryde's sone after bat gode knygt-was berto. And held euerych after ober bat boru & bat lond Myd strengbe & god chyualyrye in Cristene men bond. Ac Roberd Courtehose, & be erl Roberd of FlaOndre, And be erl Reymond Wende hom, hem to gret sclaundre. Ac Roberd Courtehose, bo he hom come, 'Wyllamme's dogter Conuersane in Poyle to wyue he nome, Ant nome wyb hyre gret garysone, to bryng bym out- of tene. A sone, bat het Wyllam, ? hii adde hem bytuenc. 1 The Ar. * And iiii . and therto fyftene A): ' Wil. liame's doughter pf Cpn. stance ac "pf Poile to wyue he nome, And toke with hure Ar. 4 Quia Sf alium filium, Richardum nomine, ex ead. uxoregenuit, qui in nova fo- resta periit, quemadmodum jam supra monuit, p. 375. Wyllam 414 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. VV YLLAM be rede kyng, of wan we abbeb y sed, Byleu'ede here in Engelond luber euere & qued. Vor abbeys & byssopi'yches al to grounde he brogfe, 1 And holy chyrche & bat'lond be destruede al to nogte. Vor wanne eny byssop, ober abbbd deyde in Engelond, Her londes & her rentes be kyng huld in hys honde, And ober wule to ferme tok, vorte berafter longe < pat hys god wylle com vp, an be ned vor to vonge. Wo so were of take myd hert ober myd hynde, Me ssolde smyte of hys heuede, gyf me mygte hym fynde. by eke man he was ynou, a round & nogt "wel long, boru out red myd gred wombe, wel yboned & strong. Renable nas he nogt of tonge, 3 ac of speche bastyf, Boffyng, *& mest wanne he were in wrabbe, ober in stryf. God sende vor hys lubernesse 5 mony deoluol cas In bys lond & wonderuol, be wule he alyue was. Vor in be secund ger, as yt vel, of hys kenedom boru outal Engelond so gret 6 erbgrybe ber com, be enlefte day of h.eruest, bat yt caste adoun 'Hous & cbyrchen mony on, " & in mony toun. Frute faylede "all" bulke ger, & heru'est ,0 late also, bat yt was Seynt Andrewe's tyd, ar heruest were ydo. 'And of holy churche and poiier alle to lite lie rought Ar. *Quarre & not longe, Ar. s But Ar. 4 And that mest in contekte and in stryf Ar. s Many a selkouth cas Ar. 6 Erthe quake Ar. i Houses Ar". « And welle many a toune Ar. ,9 Deest Ar. «° Was late Ar. ¦be Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle; 415 ¦ be verbe ger of hys kynedom so gret lygtyng ber was And bondrynge about Seyn Lukfe's tyd, bat wel grislycli yt was." And a wynd a Seyn Luke's eue * at London iri be toun So grete yt com,. bat yt velde mony hous adoun, ge mo ban syx hondred, & chyrchen berto. s And Seyn Mary * chyrche of be arches gret harm yt dude al so. 'Desunt hmcce"bina nietra in Ar. in quo tamen sequenti'a adnotavit scriptor prosa'ieus, eodem sane pertinentia; The iiiie. yere of hit [I. his] regne, (hit was a boute Seynt Luke's day) tempestes of thonders and Iightynges. For in the Idus of October atte Wynchei combe suche a stroke cam doune, that hit threst so that on side of the tour of the ste- pille, that hit holwed the stonene walle to a manne's gretnesse, and there hit passed in, and alle to brast a grete bem, and sparkeled the smale gobettes alle a boute the churche, and smote of the cru cifix ' hede with the right arme, and trew doune the y- mage of oure Lady ; and after sewed an helle brethe, as hit semed, and derkenesse, so that the monekes toke holywater, and drof a way the maner deuelnesse. s In London touiie Ther came, that felde many house's and trees ther a - doune, : Ar. t Atte Seynt Marye's atte Bowe cherche hit dude grete harme tho Ar.' 4 Hit is to remembre, the Latyn story [Will. sc. Malms, , f. 70. S.j telleth, that 'Denies and reftburs of the Bowe churche were bore so ferre, that grete mervailje was ; and also ii. couple, raftours of xxvi. fote long were pight downe so harde in to the " grounde, that vnnethe me myght see iiii, fote of lenghthe : a boue the grounde. a grete' wonder to men, how the harde pauement , of the commune strete was throw pight, and thet and ther the raftours set right as they stode atte churche,- and as carpenters hadde sette hem. Whiche Raftours, for lettyng of, men in the way, were kut of by the erthe. for other wyse. myght no man haue hem a way. Scriptor prosa'ieus in Ar. Vor 416 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Vor be rof yt ber alawey, & tueye men yt slouj And boru out al * bat lond yt dude sorwe y nou. So * gret lygtynge was be vyfte ger, so bat al to nogt be rof be chyrche of Salesbury yt broute, Rygt euene be vyfte day bat he yhalwed was. be syxte ger ber com also a wel wonder cas. Vor so gret reyn me ne sey fale ger ne flod. An "so gret forst in wynter bere com al so god, bat ber nas. non so heuy charge of wayn, ne of ober byng, bat me ne mygte ouer grete wateres bobe lede & brynge. Gret wonder & dere of byng be seuene ger me say, , And so gret manqualyn, bat mony on vnburyed lay. be tebe ger a sterre, bat comete ycluped ys, s At Alle Halwyn tyd hym ssewede vyftene nygt ywys, bat be taylede sterre men cluped hym myd rygte, Vor ber come frame hyre a leme suybe cler & brygte, As a tayl, ober a lance, as me may y se. bulke sterre ys selde yseye, bote yt bodyynge be. be tuelfte ger Temese mony mon asentte, Vor so hey bat flod arose, bat monymon adrentte. In a toun in Barcssyre, bat * Hamstude ycluped ys, In Somer out of be erbe pur blod sprang y wis 1 The Ar. * In the. v«. yere, by strengthe of stroke of the thounder and light. yng, a roff of the toure of the churche of Saresbury was caste doune, and the walle muche apeyred, the ve. day that bisshop Osmunde hadde halwed the cherche. this was the olde churche, not thes newe. Scriptor prosa'ieus in Ar. in quo metra queedam hie desiderantur. J In the Kalends *>f October, xiiii. nyght shone i wys, Ar. 4 Finchamstede nimirum. Vyftene Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 417 Vyftene dawes, & wende aboute brad & wyde, bat yt made blod rede bat water ber bysyde. Wanne me seyde hym of suche wondres, bat God anerbe sende, bat yt ' was hys lubernesse, to trufle he yt wende. Vor be lubernesse of hym non tong telle ne may. Vor so luber mon, ne so cruel, ych wene, non man ne say. Vor be worste men of al hys- lond, & mest cruel al so^ He wolde make hys conseylers, & by hem al do. be erchebyssop of Canterbury, Anselm bat was bo, Flen out of Engelond, vor hys vnrygt & wo. So bat be kyng, bo he deyde, bulke erchebyssopryche Of Canterbury adde in hys hond, bat so god ys' & ryche, And be byssopryche of Salesbury & of Wynchestre also, And abbey es of Engelond * sul euene berto. * Ech ryche clerc bat deyde hys eyr he wolde be. * Bote" more vnrygt ban hedude non man ne mygte y sey. Atte laste Jhesu Cryst nolde yt.bolye nogt, So bat, bey yt late were, to debe he was ybrogt, A monek be nygt ber byuore bat be aslawe was Mette, as he lay aslepe, by bym a wonder cas, bat be kyngeode into .a chyrche, as fers man & wod, And wel hokerlyche hy held be folc bat bere stod. To be rode he s sturte^ & hygan.to frete & gnawe be armes vaste, & byes myd hys teb to drawe. "Was for his luthernesse, to trufle hit he hit wende. The worst men pf the lpnde, and most cruwelle also, Ar. * Enleuen Ar. ' ' Euerych riche Ar. 4 Deest Ar. s Sturte thanne, and gan to spete & gnawe the armes and the thtes of her, and with his tethe to drawe. The rode Vol.11. e ' suffred 418 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. be rode yt bolede long, ac subbe atte laste He pulte hym wyt vot, & adoun vp rygt hym caste. be kyng me tolde bys, ac he ne tolde ber of nogt. Ac nabeles sone to sobe be toknyOg was ybrogt. Vor anon amorwe be kyng adde wylle best, Vor to wende an honteb, in be nywe forest, bat was in Soubamtessyre, & nabeles he was in drede1 To wende, vor such a uysyons, & vor hys luber dede. Vor be Deuel was ber byuore ber aboute yseye * In fourme of body, 8^ spec al so myd men of be contreye. So bat be kyng was adrad, & * byleuede vor such cas To wende er non an honteb, be wule he vastyng was. Ac after mete* bp he adde yete & ydronke wel, He nom on of hys priues, bat bet Water Tyrel, And a uewe obere of hys men, & nolde non lenger abyde, bat he nolde to hys game, tyde wat so bytyde. Vor he was somdel hayt, as hys herte was best, He wende hym vorb 3 an honteb to be nywe forest. So bat he 4 vohd sone an hert, he sset hymsutf anon, s And be hert vorb wyb be arwe, & bygan vaste awey gon. He prykede after vaste ynou toward be West rygt. Hys honden he huld byuore bys eyn vor be sonne lygt. So bat.bys Water Tyrel, bat ber bysyde was ney Wolde ssete anober hert, bat, as he sede, he sey. suffred hit long i nogh, so that arte laste The rede pulte him with hei- fote, and dpwne vp. rightes cast Ar. . spak Ar. * Leued Ar. » An hunted in the Ar. 4 Founde spne a hert, and shette Ar. * The hert with the arwe ' In -bodely forme, and 1 gannefprthefaste gone Ar. He Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 419 He sset be kyng in atte breste, bat neuer eft he ne speke, Bote be ssaft, bat was * wyboute, gryslych he to brec,. * And anowarde hys wombe veladoun, &deyde without speck, Wyboute ssryft & 3 hosel, anon ber was Gode's wreche. bo Water Tyrel yseyy bat he was ded, anon 4 He atornde, as vaste as he mygte} bat was hys best wOn. In be enlene hondrend ger, as in be ger of grace, bus was kyng Wyllam yssote in bulke place, And gut he adde kyng ybe breitene ger byttore, Ant more ban a uourty ger byt was bat he was ybore. In a boresday yt was, & be morwe al so After Lammasse day, bat bys ded was ydo. To Wynchestre he was ylad al myd hys grene wounde, 5 bat euere as me hym ladde 6 bat blod orn to ground. 7 A morwe anon he was ybured in be munstre ywys, Rygt byuore be heye wened, as hys body gut ys." At hys buryng ' was mony on, ac wepynd wel vewe. He adde endyng, as be wurbe was, & such yt ys to be ssrewe. 'Withinnej Ar. 'On his wombe he felle a downe, Ar. 3 Houselle, that was ther grete wreche Ar. 4 He dight him fast to tie, as fast as he myght gone Ar. * And euer Ar. 6 The Ar. i A non Tight a morwe i buried he was ther, In the churche of Seynt Swithyn, even a myd the quere Ar. Sf e regione in marg. (ab, ead. manu) f infra tarrim Episcopii. 8 %. Hit is to remembre, the next yere after h,is buryyng muche of the toure of the stypelle, that he was buryed vnder, felle doune. Wherfor many sup- posyug vnelle, putte the blame vppon the kyng. hit myght be, that for the vnsta- blenesse of the werke self hit felle, & nat for the kynge's buryyng Scriptor prosaicusin Ar. e2 be 420 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. be erchebyssop Aunselym, bat bygoride see bo Was, j' He tolde,- bat in a nysyon he sey by hym a cas, bat he was byuore God ybrogt, bys dom vor to auonge, And bat he was bere ydetnd to be pyne of Helle strong. And bat was to leue wel, wanne be gode man yt adde ysed, Sone perafter me told, bat be ssrewe was ded. X1ENRY, kyng Wyllanie's brober, be gongoste of pe pre, Anon after hys brober deb, be barons gonne byse, And made bym kyng of Engelond at Wynchestre in be place, 1 At hys brober burynyng, boru our Lorde's grace. In Engelond he was ybore Henry bys nobleman, be brydde ger bat hys fader a Engelond by wan. He was bulke of al hys sones bat beat bycom kyng to be, Of fayrost fourme * & maners, & mestgentyl & fre. Vor bat he gongost was, toboc hys fader hym drou, 4 bat he was, as- to hym by uel, god clerc ynou. So bat neuereft afterward bor he kyng was He nolde bys* clergye byleue vor nobleye ne obereas. A tyme, be wule he gong was, hys o brober hym smot ywys, And he wep, & hys fader stod & byhuld bys. Ne wep nogt,"hesede," leue sone, vor 5yt ne comp nogt to be, Vor bou ssalt gut be kyng, « & bat me ssalt yse. «< 1 AfteT his brdthere's bu. rying, Ar.. 'Engelond wan ¦ ArL i And best maners j Ar. 4 So that he by cam by tyme goode clerk i now. So that neuer afterwardes, for no ma ner cas, He nolde leue his clergie, hit was to him solas. A tyme, while Ar. J Hit by cometh nat the, Ar. 6 And that shall I see Ar. Hys Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Hys fader bym made at Westmustre knygt bys owe honde, In be nyentebe ger of hys elde, & ladde hym out of londe Myd hym into Normandye, & byleuede hym bere Rygt ney vorte he deyde in bulke sulue gere. Nober of hys breberen, bo bys fader was ded, Nas ney hym, bote he one, as ych abbe ysed. beruore he gaf hym hys blessyng, & al hys tresour berto, And he adde hys moder erytage al clene of gyfte al so. So bat he was ryche ynou, wyboute be kyng ' &"-hys brober, And nadde none nede to be on, ne to be ober. Ac be kyng, vor hys vnrygt, wel ofte he wyb seyde, And more he louede Roberd, vor* hys more"mek hede. At Wynchestre he was ychose kyng of be heye men mony on, bo hys brober was ybured, & po wende he anon To Westmustre, & was ycrouned kyng ' be verbe day * Of be byssop of Londone, as to bym bylay. Myd bys gode crounyng be suyber hii gonne hyej Vor Roberd Courtehose was ycome to Normandye. * beruore monye heyemen ne dude hym non manhede, Somme feynede a delay, & somme al out wyb seyde." bo he was ycrouned kyng at Westmynstre ywys, He bybet God 6 & bat folc an byheste, bat was bys, 421 1 Deest Ar. s His debo- nour hede Ar. ' Non. Au- gusti iiii. die post obitum fra- tris Ar. in margine ab ead. manu. 4 Of Morice bisshop of Londone, and, as summe men say, Thomas Erchebisshop of york was atte this crounyng. Fewe heigh men ther wer as for suche doyng. With his crounyng thoo hii gonne the more highe, For Robert Ar. i And many drowe towardes him of the Baronage, And to this kyng Henry delayed hure homage Ar. 6 And the peple ane bihest this, Ar. e3 To 422, Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. To alegge alle luber lawes, bat * ybolde were byuore, And betere * mak ban were subbe he was ybore. Mayster' Wyllam Gyffard be gef be byssopryche Of Wynchestre, & mayster Anselyn be ercbebyssbprycbe,, be Sonday 3 he was ycrouned, & of heruest be vyfte day, And be verbe after hys brober debe, as bys conseyl bysay. He let crye anon boru * al lond, be vnrygt lawes vndo, bat bys fader & hys brober helde, & prisons s delyuery also. per was p joye in to al lond, po men mygte abbe lawe, And lybbe 7 in joye & in rygte, bat" er were al to drawe. Specyal loue ber adde s ybe er, ych vnderstonde, Bytuene hym & be kynge's dogter Mold of ? Scoclond, So bat he wyllede hyre tp wyue, & be byssopes al so, An bebeyemeh of pe lond radde hym wel ber to. So bat sone so he was kyng, a Seyn Martyne's day, ych wene, He spousedc hyre, bat was ycluped Mpld the god quene, bat was kunde eyr of Engelond,- as ych abbe ytolde byuore; Vor er was be kunde erytage of. Engelond verlore. 10 Vor Edward was be kynge's sone, bat me specb of wyde, be stalworde kyng, bat was Edmond yreuesyde, * Used were Ar. * Make hem than they were Ar. 3 1 crouned he was, of heruest the iiii*. day, Ar. 4 Alle the londe, the luthur lawes vndo, Ar. * Delyuered Ar, 6 Joy & blysse i now, thoo hii myght haue lawe, Ar. 1 1n ryght and in pes, that Ar. 8 I bee, as men dude vnderstonde, Ar. » Scotlonde Ar. I0 Ed. warde (the kynge's sone, that me speketh of wyde, That me clepeth Edmunde with the Irenside ) Gat a doughter Mergarete, as ich ynder- stande, That spoused was to Macolyn, kyng of Scotlonde. And thenne Molde the goude quene hure doghter was I wis, Edmund Irynsidis heir, as is tolde er this Ar. And Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. . 423 And bo was Edwarde's dogter Margarete, ych vnderstonde, be kynge's Wyf Macolom, Jje kyng of Scotlonde. bo was Mold be god quene her dogter y wys, And kunde eyr of Engelond, (as ych abbe ysed ar bys,) And so com boru byre Engelond ' into bys kunde more After Seynt Edwarde's debe, (as ych abbe ysed byuore) 1 And pays also vorst myd hyre, vor arst nas ber non, By 'bys" bre kynges * day, bat vnkunde were echon. Seynt Edwarde's auysyon of be tre, bat was so hey, Was bo to sobe y come, bat byuore hys debe he sey. Monye were be gode lawes y mad in Engelond boru Mold bys gode quene, as ych. vnderstonde. Hyt ne lykede non byng wel Roberd Courtehose, boru hys gongore brober go Engelond to lese. And mony hey men of be lond myd Roberd hqlde also, Vor he was eldore brober, & gode knygt berto. 1 And nabeles Henry adde bo best rygt, kunde eyr was. So bat in be vorste ger, bat kyng Henry ber * croune, Roberd hym bybogte, to bryng hym 7 al ber doune. Byuore Lammasse be tuelfte day at an bauene ber by Soube Myd hys ost be aryuede, bat me clupeb Portesmoube. ' To hure Ar. * For pees by hure came a ye, for erst Ar. * Deest Ar. 4 Day, oute of kynde echon Ar. s But Hen. ry hadde thee better right, and nameliche for that cas, That goude Mplde was his wyf, that kynde heire tho was. So that Ar. unde liquet, voces aliquot desiderari in Codice nostra Harleyano. b The crpwne, Ar. ' A downe. The xii.'day by fore Lammasse atte an hauenby Southe Ar. ? e 4 ' Kyng 424 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 1 Kyng Henry al so god agen hym vaste drou * Myd bys knygtes, & barons, & poer ynou. Gode" knygtes, pat per were, * bet, bat hii hem vnderstode, bat bytuene tueye brebereh batayles nere nogt gode. An fourme hii made, bat eyber helde hys owe in hys hond, Rpb*rd Normandye and Henry Engelond. And vor bat Roberd eldor brober was, bat Henry hym pere, Al hys lyue, 4 bre bousend marc fram gere to gere, And weber of hem al so lengore were alyue Were obere's eyr, bote he adde an eyr by hys wyue. Her of was god sykernesse in eyber half ydo, And bus myd gode loue hii deparlede atuo. And Roberd was vorte Myelmasse myd hys brober be kyng j Subbe he wende to Normandye to hys owe byng. bys kyng Henry & bys wyf, be gode quene Mold, So wel 5 dygte" Engelond, bat yl was wyde ytold, Pouer hous of religyon, e bat luber kynges sseode, bat were byuore hem, hii gonne vaste amende. be abbey of 7 Redynges, & of Cyrencestre al so, Hii rerde vorst of smebe grounde, & gut mo berto. In be enlene hondred ger of grace & be vyft ytold Our Lorde hem sende a dogter, bat yclupeb was eke Mold, 1 Henry kyng with his host a yene Ar. * Of erles, and barons", and grete power i nowe. Thenne goode Ar. 3 Bade hem, Ar. 4 Hii. thousand Ar. s Gouerned Ar. 6 That other kynges shende, With his wisdom and his goude he lete faste amende Ar. 7 Redyng, and pf Cir, cestre also, Me lete rere of the bare grounde, Ar, He Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. He nadde ¦ nanmo chyldren, bote be kyng adde byuore An sone, * bat Roberd, bat was abast ybore. 425 1 Minus rede. Nam Sffilium, juvenent sane lectissimum, ex eadem suscepit Matilde, in, mart, cum multis aliis delica. tissimis corporibus, satis in- feliciter submersum. id quod etiam docuit ipse noster Ro. bertus infra. Sed de liberis hujus regis audi sis verba scriptoris prosaici in Ar. Haic scilicet: H This kyng Henry hadde getyn children oute of spouse hode, Robert, that after was Erie of Glou cestre : And Raynalde Erie of Cornewaille, that ' liethe buried atte Redyng : And Ri chard Erie of Chestre, that afterward was dreynte in the see, with William the kyngus sone and heire, and Otnel also was a dreynte, & Countesse of Perches also a dreynt. 1 In spouse hode gate he of Mi. ct. Mold* a doughter also, i clepud Molde, and after a sone William. Molde was i yene to an Em perour Henry to wyue, bothe with inne age. So that this Emperour with inne age deyde, and 'Maude the Emperise was by Henry hure fader brought home a ye, and after i yene to Geffrey Plantagenest, that is to sey, brpme plonte, of whiche this Geffrey gat a sone clepud Henry, which after was kyng of Engelond, and cleped Henry the iide. fiz Emperice, that is, Henry themperise sone, , tak. yng of his moder the sour- name, as of grettest astate. Molde the goude quenus suster, that hight Marie, was i yene- to Eustace, the noble *j jju- Erle of Boloyne, of whiche *facJ£rl* he gat a Doughter Molde, loync whiche, whenne ' hur fader contesse. was dede, and hadde nonne heire, Maule was wedded tp Stephene Bloys, the sone of- Ele, kyng Henrie's Suster, whiche was after kyng, and hadde the Erledom of Bo loyne, and of Mbrteyne. ? When William, the kyngus sone, by fore saide was of. xii. yere olde, his fader dude - . him spouse the Erie Fouke's doughter of Angeoy, to gete frendship of the man, whiche he hadde in suspectc to fore. honde, and to the kyngus song for spouse yft was yene the. Erledom of Cenoynes, and after that certeyne . yeres Maude themperise a boue saide was fene to Geffrey Plantagenest, Erie Fouke's sone of Angeo, whas suster '• William 426 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. be acord, bat was er ymad bytuene our kyng so vaste And Roberd Courtehose, lute wule yt laste, * Vor our kyng be vorsteger,bat our Lorde a cbyld bym sende, Myd gret ost & poer to Normandye * he" wende, A lute byuore heruest, & 3 vp Roberd hys brober Vaste bygan to worry, & * her" eyber agen ober. So bat a Myelmasse eue, myd her ost hii come To gadcrc myd gret * strongbe, & be batayle nome. be kyng adde * wel be more volc,'ac Roberd, bat was so god In batayles in be h'oly lond, bere yt vnderstode. Vor so wel he vagt, & hys men hardyssede echon, bat he drof vorst be agen & hys ober fon. Ac be kyng adde so mucbe folc, & he so lute, alas ! bat hys men bygonne to fie, bo mest nede was. So bat attp laste he was yaste y nprae ynow, Mony wa^ be gode body, bat he arst slou. Ober knygtes bere were y nome, bat myd hym were also, And ylad in to Engelond, & into strong prison ydo. In prison was Roberd 7 al bys lyf, & gut, ych vnderstonde^ Hym adde betereabbe ybe kyng of be holy lqhd, William the kyngus sone hadde wedded to forehonde. * F, }at het Roberd. * For thy oure Ar. * Deest Ar. i One Ar. 4 Deest Ar. s Strengbe Ar. 6 Welle the more peplc, and natheles due Robert, For alle the muche peple, of hem was nat a ferde. For with his men so hardeliche he fought a yene his fon, That furste the kyng and his men he drof a hak echon Ar. i Quali- ter Robertus Curtheuse obierit sequentiaante annos aliquot ex. scripsi h Cod. MS. Bodleiano NE. F. 4. 8. Sf CoUectaneis nostril MSS, (Foi. 59, p. 8.) inserui : " Anno Domini M°- " cxxx-im. cum Dominus nq- " ster Ihesus Ch,ristus, qui ne, " minem perire desiderat. ium si Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 427 ** duci Roberto satis amplum 11 pcenitencice'spacium Sf hu- (i miliacionis concessisset, viz. " jam fere trigintd annorum il in orbitate vel carcere " transactorum, abusus est te Mo Dei benefido. intumuit " enim superbia nimis, male. 11 diccionibus Sf detraccion- 11 /bus, quipotius divinisjugi. " ter obsequiis Sf precibus " assiduis incubuisse tenere. " t ur, utpote diu affiictus Sf u jam seriex. Contigit igitur " una dierumfestivorum,cum " rex novum vestem, quamvul. il gariter robdm appellamus, f ' de scarleto sumens, assuetus " de eodem super panno robam 11 fratri suo Roberto trans. " mittere, capam conabatur " induere, sed invenit introi- ,e turn capucii, quod Gulerim " Gallice apptllaliir, nimis " artum. Unde contigit, ut u- '' nam suturrn puncturamtan- 11 turn confringens, earn depo. li suit, Sf dixit: Hasc capa de. " feratur danda fratri met) Ro- " berto, qui argnicius [lege, " argutius] capud me habet. " Quos. cum ipsi delatafuisset " induenda, invenit illamjam " dictam puncturam, qua per " incuriam Cwsaris[pro seis. " soris,J quod minima relin. lf quebatur, non resuta. Ut a dux, Unde haec, quam censio u [sic], fractura? Et nuncius, Cl quce contigerant, seriatim ^jocando duci referebat. Et " dux, quasi alto vulnere sau- " ciits, irriguit, dicens, lieu ! " heu ! nunc nimis vivo. Quid "adhucvitam protraho infe- " licem ? EcCe frater meus, immo u proditor meus ¦& supplanta- " tor, me jam adeo spernit & " vilem habet, quod mihi, tan- " quam prasbendario suo, pro . " elemosina sua hos veteres , 63.) retulit, oculis privatum fuisse Robertum an. ,1107. Male aut em hwc. Nee quidem "firmat Robertus noster Glou. cestriensi's. Rectius UU, qui doceant, ilium neutiquum fu isse oculis orbatum, sed incur. cerationem satis lenem ad mortemusque subiisse. Sedhac de re vide librum prmclarissi. mum, inscriptum : The Here. ditary Right of the Crown of England asserted ; 6fC. p. 39, 40.. 428 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. bat he versoc, vor he nolde in gret trauayl be. bo adde be reste y nou, wanne be ne mygte nogt fle. Awey ! sely Robelyn, sely Courtehose, In vnele tyme, bou mygte segge, reste dust chese, And be hexte prince of Cristendom vor to be yersoke Vor trauayl, wanne God wolde, & to reste toke. bo bou versoke such trauayl, to be in God seruise, And wrabbedest so muche God, bou nedust nogt as be wyse. Wat was by strengbe worb, & by chyualerye, bo bou lore grace of God ? ywys nogt worb a flye. Ech man be by be ywar, be wuch so he euere be, gyf he lesyt Gode's grace, he ne ssal neuere ybe. In be enlene hondred ger & syx ger ber to Of be ger of grace was bys Roberd ynome so. Jn be ger, bat he was ynome, men ysey ywys < be taylede sterre, bat gret ' bodynge ys. bo was our kyng Henry boru out kyng alone, And * nadde in neuere asyde destourbaunce none. Byuore 3 alle" ober God bym gef bre bynges, as rycbesse, And wysdom, & maystrye, & bys was gret heynesse. In bys bre * bynges ber ner uon man ylyche, Ne none of his eldore ne nere byuore hym so ryche. Wysore kyng byuore hym ber nas yseye non. Mek he was to mylde men, & cruel to hys fon. Sparye he wolde s myld men, & harde chasty be proute. So bard he was 6 vp beues, bat hii ne dorste nour at route. 1 Token yng Ar. ? Ne hadde in cyjer syde Ar. ' Deest Ar. 4 Grete thynges was nower non him liche, Ne non by fore him of his eldren by grete del so riche Ar. s The mepke,. and chaste sore the proute Ar. « Tq theues, hii ne durste nowhere route .Ar. Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 429 ' Myd hys wysdom, bat was so muche, be hem out drou," 4 And false sueryars of assyses, & dude hem ssame ynou. False elnen & mesures he brogte al clene- adoun. gyf eny of hys men mys dude be pouere 3 in eny toun, Ober eny rycbeman be pouere, vengeance he nomo strong, And ne sparede nogt, gyf he were wurbe to ben an hong. ? Vor in trauayl he was gret ynou, of bogte day & nygt Vor sauy pouere men fram ryche men vnrygt . " Lengore man he was somdel, s bat hys breberen were, Vayr man &bycke ynow, &of broune6here. Ballede he was, & bycke of breste, of body vat also, So hende, pat he ne ssolde in so gret anny be ydo Of tybynge, ne of anny, bat he ssolde hys conrteysye In eny dede byleue, & he were in compaynye. Worry he wolde watloker myd wysdom, ban myd arme.? Wybout blode, gyf he mygte, and wyboute harme. En tempre he was of mete, & drynke, & of slep also. Abbeyes be rerde in Normandye, & in Engelond berto* Bytuene tueye wateres he rerde Redynge Bytuene Kenet & Temese, & let berynne bryng 1 Carmen hoc omittit Ar. * Fals swerers in enquestes he dude shame i nowe. Fals ellen Ar. ' In felde or in •toune,- Or any riche to the poure dude veniaunce or wronge, He ne spared for no thing, as lawe wolde him, to honge Ar. 4 Desunt htec bina metra in Ar. * Thanne Ar. 6 Here. For tything, ne for any other thing, that touched any armye, He nolde a basshe his chere a mong compa. nye. Werry wolde he with? worde, rather thanne with armes., Yf he myght with oute blode shedyngj. or grete harmes Ar. Monekes 480 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Monekes ' of Cldyny, bat hende were wel long, beruore hem come mo gyftes, ban vayre were vndervongeV An sone he adde, a wys chyld, by Molde hys gode wyue;; bat was Wyllam ycluped, bat to lute was alyue. Vor, ar he were volwoxe, in be se adrohke he was, And bat was to all Engelond a wel deoluol cas. Kyng Henry, in besenebe ger of hys crounyng, And enlene hondered ger & senene of our Lorde alygtyn^ bo he adde ydo bys brober in syker warde ynou, And hys dogter was a ten ger old, to conseyl bo he drou. In a Wyte sonetyd a gret Parlement he nome At Westmynstre, noble ynou, bat muche folc to come. Alle be byssopryches, bat delyuered were Of Normandye & Engelond, he gef al clene bere, And alle be abbeys berto, so bat ygyne me nuste So vale neuere at otyme, as me bo wuste. ' Quia Sf. hie monachos Cluniacenses primb fuisse as. seruit etiam WMlielmus Mal. mesburiensis. Et tamen inter Benedictinos caenobium hoc collocandum esse monuerunt e registris Monastici Anglica. ni edit ores, Tom. I. p. 417. Hoc loco quosdam rhythmos omisit Ar. in quo Codice neque cujusnam ordinis fuerit cos- . nobium Radingense declara. v$t aitctor prosaicus, quamvis haic inemorice prodiderit de ccenobiis, Henrico primo reg. nante fundatis : f Hit is to remembre, that many abbeys were founded in his tyme.. as these. IThe abbay of Redyng in his. xxiie_ yere. Circetre. The abbey of Fpunt Euerarde, in the honour of conception of. oure lady, that tho was newe founded. In the xxxii. yere f The abbey of Tynterne was founded in the yere of oure Lorde Ml. cxxxi°. f The abbey Quarere in He of Wighte. Ml.cxxxii°. The abbey of Fountinelle the same Wyse and yere. The abbey of Gerdon. MI. exxxii. The ab bey of Forde. Ml. exxxv. 1 & other many, Ensre- Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 431 Engelond & Normandye in god poynt he brogte, And holy chyrche bor out al, pat eode er to nogte. per Was bo in Engelond ' a gret louerdyng, On of be * grestost bat ber was, wybout Henry kyng, Syre Roberd 3 le" fyz Haym, bat 4 let vorst arcie be abbey of Teukesbury, & monekes brogte bere. He deyde aboute bulke tyme, & ybured was ywys In be abbey of Teukesbury, as hys body gut ys. Mabyle bys dogter was eyr of al hys * londes, be kyng.vor yre erytage s hym gan vnderstonde, To brynge Roberd hys sone a bast in hys waryson pere boru spousyng of bys mayde, bat auanced were. He seyde, " bat 7 heo ssolde hys sone to hyre spouse auonge. bys mayde was bere aged, & wyb seyde yf longe. be kyng of sogte hyre suybe ynou, so bat atteu ende ¦ Mabyle hym ansuerede, as gode mayde & hende, " Syre," heo seyde, " wel ychot, bat goure herte Vp me ys, " More vor myn erytage, ban my sulue ywys. " * So vayr erytage, as ych abbe^ yt were » me gret ssarae, « jo yor ^Q ajj{je an Jouerd^ D0{e he adde an tuo name. 1 A swithe grete lordyng, Ar. z Grette,tst, with oute Ar. * Deest Ar. ' 4 Ferst gahne a rere Ar. J Londe, Ar. 6 Bygan him vnder- stande, To auaunce Robert his sone, that bastarst-was, there. So that to the mayde was i spoused of this matere, And ase sheo'ofte was sought, fheo answered atte ende To the kyng in this maner, as goude mayde and hende. Sir, sheo saide, welle iche wote ' youre hert vpon me fs, Ar. i Vide Seldeni Titles of Ho nor, p. 647. Ed. mdcxxxi. Sf Hickesii Diss. Epist. de Un. guar. vett. Sept. usu, p. 27. 8And suche heritage, Ar. 9 To me Ar. I0 To take a lorde, but he hadde any surname Ar., " Syre 432 Robert of Gloucester *s Chronicle. " Syre Roberd le Fyz Haim my fader name was, " * And bat ne mygte nogt be hys> bat of hys kunnenogt lias. " beruore, Syre, vor Gode's loue} ne let me npn man owe, " Bote he * abbe an tuo name, war boru be be yknowe. , " Damaysele," quab be. kyng, " bou seyst wel in bys cas.j " Syre Roberd 3 le" Fyz Haym by fadere's name was. " And as vayr name he ssal abbe, gyf me * hym" may byse, e kyng vnderstod, 9 bat be mayde ne seyde non out rage, And bat Gloucestre was chef of hyre erytage. " Damasele," he seyde bo, " by louerd ssal abbe an name "" Vor hym, & vor hys^yrs, vayr wyb out blame. Xl Vor Roberd erl of Gloucestre hys name ssal be^ & ys { *' I0 Vor" he ssal be erl of Gloucestre, & bys eyrs ywys. " " Syre," quab be mayde bo, *" wel lykeb me bys/' "¦ In bys fourme " ychplle, batal my byng be hys. .pus was I3 erl of Gloucestre vorst ymadebere 14 As bys Roberd of all bulke, bat longe byuore were. '' And thulke myght nat be his, that of his kynne nas Ar. » Haue a sourname, wherby to be knowe Ar. s Deest Ar. 4 Omittit ,Ar. s Deest Ar. 6 This is a fayre name, Ar. " Hote, if one of him come? So myght he not hote, nemeth ther of gome Ar. 8 Malim, so ne. 9 So she saide non vt rage, Ar. »° Deest Ar. " Metrum hocce omittit Ar. « Iche ¦ wole, Ar. '3 An Erie Ar. '4 After the conquest of alle that there were. This was a xi. c. yere and ix. yere a plight, Afther "that oure swete Lorde Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. ABB bys was enlene hppdred ger, & ip be ger rygt, After bat pur Lorde was in hys mpder alygt ; And of be kynge's crpunement:1 in.be gere, bat be vorst erl pf Gloucestre bus was y mad bere, Roberd, bat spoused be rygt eyr, kyng Henry sone, J?at vor hys goue dede worb, ych wene, eilere ip mone. And.Brystow bour bys wyf was aljso.hys, And he brogt in gret 2 sta be toup, as be gut ys, And rerde bgr an castel myd be noble tour, at of alle be tours of Engelond ys yholde flour. be priorye pf Seyn Jemps in pe Norp syde alute He rerde of blake monekes, as hys body lyb gute. Vor he ys byupre be heye wened ybured bere ywys, Aud of be hous of Teukesbury bulke .qpuent ¥$; And hys sone after hym ^ bat.het.be erl Wylbwrj, Bygan vorst & arerde be abbey pf Keynesham. pe emperour pf Alyinayne wyllecfe to wyqe Mold be kypgp's * dogter, & to rygtp lyue. Heo nas bote 4 of vyf ger old, bo heo. W^s to f>e empejrpur ' ypoused, fat hext was of al Cristenedpm & flour. Wyb gret pobleye & ryphesse to Alemajne heo com, And be kyng of al Engelond gret raunspp bo, ppm, Lprde herei on herthe light, At. Adeo ut male. in he pro ninfe (jiye. potius in he ninje) tarn hie, quam Sf imax infra, l\a,beqt Qod:. Harleypnus. 'In the i*e, yere. That this Erie of Gloucestre maked thus was th6re; Thenne Robert spou sed this Molde, in stories as we fynde, And muche thing dude afterward, that euere worthe in mynde 4r- i^T° state' ? Doughter of Molde the quene blyue^r. 4 Qeest Ar, * Sic, Vol. II. p Vor 434 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. t Vor to marye hys dogter, vor he nadde natno. Of ech hyde of Engelpnd pre ss-yllynges be nom bo. 11 yt was ydonc be teoe ger of be kynge's kynedom, And enlene hondred & be tebe bat our Lord Pnerbe com. be godenesse, bat god Henry & be quene Mold Dude here to Engelond, ne may neuere be ytolde. Vor bys Mold was, be wule'heo was gong, to norysy ydo In be abbeye of Rameseye, & of Wyltone al so, And lernede pere clannesse ' '&" of Gode's seruysej So bat hyr * wader yre wolde marye in alle wyse In dyuerse studes ofte,- 3 & heo clanlyche yt versok. And vorto be 4 syker of yre stat, be abyte of nonne heo tok. Ac me nolde hyre 5 professe make in none wyse^ Vor cas bat mygte come, 6 vor hyre gentryse. And bat was wel ipreued in ech cas of hyre lyue By uore be erchebyssop Aunselym, bat spousede hyr to wyue. Vayr womman heo was ynou, 7 & boru out al pure clene. Vor me ne mygte hyre neuere yse vnclannesse do ene, 1 Bote on, bat heo nede moste, to hyre lorde's bedde go, ' And syker, gyf heo yt mygte byleue, hyre was beruore wel Wo, Gode's seruyse heo hurde alout, & werede harde here, And baruot eode al be Leynte, bote yt vor ssame were. Pouere men wel ofte in to hyre chambre heo drou, Bobe meseles & ober, & greybede hem vayre ynou, ' Deest Ar. * Fader hur wolde haue maried, and that in alle wyse Ar. 3 But heo hit forsoke Ar. 4 The sicou. ror, the abyt of nonne toke Ar. s Her profession make in no wyse Ar. 6 Of hure Ar. 7 And in alle pur Ar. 8 Hxc duo metra desunt in Ar. And ¦Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 435 And wesse het fet al clene, & be quyture out sogte, And * custe be sore lymes, & to mete hem subbe brogte. Some tyme as bys gode Mold into halle come, * An knygt, bat hyre pryue was, into chambre heo nome. bo sete ber in be chambre myseles mony on. bo caste bys gode Mold yre mantel of anon, ¦And gurde aboute yre myddel a uayre 3 lynne ssete, And wess be mysseles vet echone, ar heo lete, ' And wypede ys nesselyche, & custeys wel suete. Hyr maydenes brougte hyre clene water euere wan goe bete. Hou mygte of an quene be more mylfol wede ? be knygt stode & byhuld, & an vewe wordes sede. ct Madame," he seyde, " vor Gode's loue, ys bys Wel y do, " bat bou bys unclene lymes handiest & eust so ? « * yyl wolde myd louerd be kyng telle, wan he by moub eust, " bat so vylyche yuyled ys, me byhgb, gyf he yt wuste. " Syre," qua}? quene, " be stylle, wy s seyste so ? " Our Louerd hym sulf gef en saumple, such byng vor do. " ' bat vor ych clupede be so vp, bat bou shost yse, " To nyme 7 an saumple afterward mylfol & mek be. bys was s a gode lady," as yt was bar ysene, goe was worby tobe ycluped, Mold be god quene. 1 Kyste hure - sore lymes, Ar. * A knyght, that with hure priuee was, into hure chambre heo nom Ar. *Lyn-' nynne Ar. 4 Foule wolde the kyng thinke, * if that hit wiste, And righte welle avise him, er he youre mouthe keste. Sire, sire, quod the quene Ar. ' Saiste thow so ? Ar. 6 And therfor loh cleped the vp, that thow hit shbldest see, Ar. ' Ensam- ple her afterwarde, loweliche for to be Ar. 8 Loo ! a goudc woman, Ar. f 2 Vor 136 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicte. Vor al be godepesse, bat goe dude her to Engelond, He mowe nogt al; be her y wryte, ne of o man vnderstonde. bo deyde Mold bys god quene, enlene hondred ger And eygtebe after bat God anerbe alygte her. At Westmynstre goe was ybured a Seyn Pbylyppe's day And Seyn Jacob, as yt valj?, bp varst day of May. ' Hyt byuel ber aboute, bat be erl Tebaude de BJeys, bat was kyng Henry suster sone, dystourbecj be pe.ys, And boru kyng Henrye's rede made destoprbance, And bygan to arete worre vp 'be kyng of France. » bo were be kyng of France, &,bg erl of Flaundresalso, Were alle atone rede, 3 & be. erl of Aungep, Tp make kyng Henry Normandye to lese, , And 4 saysy berwyb Wyllam, Roberde^s gone Courtehose. bo kyng Henry wuste bys, he passede atte laste J be see, & ' garkede hys ost vp bys fon wel vaste. Wyb bym he adde in hys poer 'be erbof Brutayne, And syre Tybaud de Bleysal so, pyd;al by&mayne. bo hii ? come to gadere, bys batayle to do, be kyng of France vorst; hys * ost partjede atuo. Wyllam Courtehose "made of be vorst wardeyn> And in ober bybynde he was hym sulf myd at Uys mayn. * Lowys kyng of Fraunce, Ar. in marg.ab ead. manji.. 1 Wh^er/or the Ar. » And eke the Ar. 4 Seise Ar,A s Greythed his host vpon Ar. 6 Thane due Ar. ' Were to gedere i come, the bataille fpr to doo, Ar. 8 Host ganne to part a twoo Ar. 9 Qf the furst maked he wardayne, And in the other by hynde hym self was cheuetayne. /Ac the kynge's host Henry * thre* was parted there., The due of Brutayne and the Erie pf. Bleys ferst were, And the se- cuude him, selfj as ho seithe* amydde At,,,, And Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 437 And be kyiig'Heiwy hys ost abre ddde bere ? Vor be erl of Flaunders & A-ungeo in be vprste were, And hym sulf in be ober was, as wo seyb, amydde. And banue hys tueye sones were wardeyns in be brydde. Vor hys sortes were gat alyue, bat adrepcte were atte laste. 1 So hii adde her ost yset, hii srnyte to gadere vaste. be vaunt z wardes hem mette vorst, as rygte was to done. Hii smyte to gadere, & fogtfe vaste, 3 at our ost al to sone Bygan to sprede, & * cpde adoun, ac our myldel ost ywys, As our kyng inne was, ne lykede nogt bys. Hii smyte vorb, ar her tyme were, & 5 bys ober ost mette, And slowe & brogte hem to grounde, & verrore her wey uette To be kynge's owe ost of France, so bat bit sone come. * po be smytyn of lance was ydo, to be suerde hii nome, And slou to grounde ' vaste ynou, & baistemony a sselde, Jat longe yt was * ar ober alf mygte wynne feld. Wyllam Crispyn, bat hatede our kyng of Engelond, Vor to sie bym, gyf he mygte, faste he gan » fonde. He smot hym 10 vp be heuede tuye luber ynou, bat, bey yt ne percede nogt be yre, be blod vaste adoun drou- be kyng was bo wrob ynou, hys mede lie hym by bet. He smot hym vpon hys helm, bat he vel doun to hys fet. bere he was ynome anon, & niionye ober al so. bo com be .brydde ost al verss, be batayle vor to do, ' And tho lui Ar. J Ward mette ferst, Ar. 3 But Ar. 4 yede a doune, ac oore myd- del warde I wys, That oure kyng inne was, Ar. s This host hii mette, Ar. $ Thp the fidrokie of spere was d»o, to hur swerdes hii nome, Ar. " Faste, and to dasshte many a /shelde, Ar. 8 Er me wuste ho shulde haue the felde Ar. 9 To fonde Ar. >° On the hefd tweys Ar. F 3 'As 4S3 Prose. Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 1 As be kynge's sones inne were, & smyte to grounde anon. bo be Frensse ysey bys, hii ne coube ober won, Bote turnde hem be rug, & bygonne to fle echon, Ac ynome & yslawe bere was * arest monyon, ber was joye, bat be kyng of France was ouercome, And so monye of his knygtes yslawe & ynome. bo be Frensse were al bynebe, myd joye & blysse ynou be kyng Henry myd bys poer to Engelond drou. 3 Ao hem com a deoluol cas in be see bere ; Vor bobe Wyllam & Rychard bys sones adrentte were, And hys pan y ter & hys chamberleyn, & hys boteler also, And syre Rychard erl of Chestre, & monye ober berto. 1 That the kynge's sones were inne, and Ar. 2 Erst Ar. 5 Hit by felle in a tyme, that a companye Of the kyn gus hous Henry, that were in Normandy, Wolde into Engelond, as felle by ordi. naunce. But in the see hom. warde hem felle a dyuers chaunce. William a Richard the kyngus sones bothe a. dreyrit were, And other many, as in prose thow maiste here lere. f William, the kyng Henrie's sone, whanne he was of xvii. yere olde, with Richarde his brother were ©rdeyned to wende into En gelonde, after the victorye vp. on Lowyce kyng. so that he lete ordeyne for him selfe a ship, wel a rayed, as felle to his state. And so felle hit, that alle yong gentils, of men and of women, drow towarde the kynge's sones, holdyng a grete thing hoso myght be nexte, or towardes, him. So that whan the ship was redy, this William and Richard, with many pther, wente to shipe, and gonne to meueoute of the hauene of Barflete. So that the shipmen, or for dronk. nesse, or for grete gladnesse of the presense of the kynge's sones, vnweyselich gouern. yng the ship, set hit vppon a grete Rokke, so that the ship to brak, and William the kyngus sone, with other, wente into the bote, & myght welle haue ascaped. But the Countesse of Perch Suster, for pitousliche to goo in to the bote , his bast drede cride so Robert' of Gloucester's Chronicle; 439 In tuentybe ger of hys kynpdom bys dede was ydo 3 Ac wreche of God & synnehem brogte berto. Vor myd be vyle synne of Sodomy yproned hii were echon, beruore, boru wreche of God, ber nas ybured nogt on. Ne mygte be founde in be see of all bat hii were ysogt. Vor God nolde, bat such synne were vnder erbe ybrogt. be kyng held at ' Bromtone ber after al in peys Hys teste at Mydewynter, myd Tebaud de Bleys, Hys Ester subbe at Berkeleye, & at Wyudelsore ywys Hys Wytesone tyde. he huld, bat noble ste de ys, bat he let bulde hym sulf, & Wodestoke also, And be spare of Wodestoke, & der ber inne do. Kyng Henry bys tueye stedes vorst bulde ywys. Subbe he weddede anober wyf, bo ydo was al bys, bote withe him, that they or- deyned to haue hur inne. And after hure so many felle into the bote, that the bote ouertourned, and adreynte alle that ther wer. That is to seye, William Erie of Ce. noyne, kynge's sone and his heir. Richarde Erie of Che- ster, the kynge's sone Ba stard- Otnelle his brother. The Countesse of Perches. The kyngus nece, the Coun tesse of Chestre. Geffrey Ri del. Wauter de Emurcy. God fray archedekon, and many other. This infortune, somme saide, felle for tlie synne of Sodomye. & also hit was saide, that William swoor, yf he myght ouere lyf, his wolde make Englysshe men drawe atte ploughe. Ther escaped of that ship but onliche on man, that cleued to a mast, and cam to the londe, and told the infortune. Ryme. f With foule synne of So domye were proued many on Of hem, . for thy, thourgh wreche, ther was i buried non. Hii ne myght be founde in he see, for alle tbey were i sought. For God nolde suche synne were vndere erthe i brought Ar. 1 Bramptone Ar. F 4 be 440 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle, be Wyttesorietyd at Wyndetsore, a worn man of gret fame, 1 And hey duke's dogter, Adelyne was yre name. Me nuste womman so vayr non in be ihyddel erbe, He spoused hyre at Wyndelsore, ¦ » bat he hymsulf rerde. bo was borrt be kyng arerde pe abbey of Redynge, In tuo & tutefit'ybe ger of hys crounyng." Subbe wende be kyng agen in to Normandye, To 3 susteyny agen be kyrig of France hys noble seygnorye, bat he adde er y wofiae> & bo deyde by cas be emperour of Alymayne, bat hys obom was. And bo be kyng al adde yconfermed vaste ynou, By tuene hym & be kyng of France, agen to hys lond he drou, And hys dogter wyb hym, bat wedeW was, he nome, In be syxe & tuentybe ger of hys kynedom. He louede hyr, vor Tieb was eyr & hey emperesse. tie brogte hyre bp to Engelond about Myelmasse. bo spousede byre syre Geffray, bat was erl of Aungeo^ In enlene hondred ger of grace, & seuene & taenfy berto, And 4 in seuene & tuenty ger of pe kynge's croUhyg also, Myd nbbleye & prute ynou bys spousyng was do. 5 Hous of relygyon (as ych sede er, ych wene) Kyng Henry louede muche, as yt was ysene. Vor be ordre of greye monekes bom hym me brogte Vorst here into Engelond, as 6 perauntre" me bym bysogfe. 'The duke's doghter of LoUeyne, Alice was hur name Ar. JThat him selfe gatine rere, Of his Cororieincnt the xxii. yere, ahd of oure Lorde a M'. cxxi. Ar, omisso car- mine de Redingo. ' Susteyne Ar. 4 Anno regni xxvin. hasce nuptids celebratasfuisse ait Ar. * Houses Ar. 6 Deest Ar. As Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Ml As in be abbey pf Wauerle bat yt vdflst to com, As in be eygte & tuenty be ger of hys kynedorn. And be vorst hous ber after FonteyPs me let rere, As yt vel of hys kynedom tuo & brytty gere. As yt vel enlene hondred get 'as in be get of grace^ And tuo & brytty, pat me rerd Fonteynes in bulke place. Our leuede day in Decembre pere byuore was boru angel vorst byfounde, as ge Wnteb J?at cas, As in enlene hondred ger & tuerity & nyne After bat God anerbe coin, to brynge vs put of pyne. Ac be ordre of Greye monekes Was 'bygPnne er At Cysteps, ar 'he hyder come nyne & tuenty geiy' As in tuelfte ger of Wyllame's kenedomj be ger bat Cristyne folc Jerusalem nome. Mold be * kyng dogfer, bat emperesse Was al so, bat yspoused was to Geffray, erl of Angeo, 3 God hem sende a -chyld bytuene, after her spsusyng be syxte ger, bat hot Henry, bat subbe Was our kyng. In be * enlene hondred ger bat our Loruerd anerbe com, And bre & bryttybe ger^ bys cbyld ybore was, boru wan was subbe ymartred pe gode man Seyn Thomas. Glad was 5 be" kyng Henry bo be tybynge hym com Of bulke cbyld to ben hys eyr of hys kynedom. Noblyche hys Ester feste he huld vor bys cas In bys vayr halle 6 of Oxenford, bat bo ny\ve was. r Hii huder come xxxix. yere, Als in the xii. yere Ar. 1 Kynge's Ar. * God sent a faire chil'de, after Ar. 4 De. sunt hie tria me/tra in Ar. in cujus tamen margine ab ead. matiu significatur, natum fu. ' isse A.D. M1. cxxxiid0. « Deest Ar. * Atte pro of in Ar. 'And 442 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. ' And byssopryche he made bo, & an byssop bere, Bysyde Scotlond at Cardoyl, bat nas non neuere er. bo wende he to Normandye. & * al nexe ger, Vor joye of be gonge child, he byleuede bere. Subbe boru som heye herte ber 3 wax a lute stryf Bytuene be erl of Aungeo, & be emperesse hys wyf. be kyng 4 adde gode wylle, hyder to wende, ych wene, Ac he byleuede vor hys dogter hyre tp sustene. Heo was to prout 5 agen hyr Loruerd, vor hyr heyenesse., Vor heo was eyr, & kynge's dogter, & eke 6 emperesse. be kyng hyre fader was old man, & drou to feblesse," And be anguysse of bys dogter hym dude more destresse, And 1 akelde hym wel be more, so bat feble he was, * So bat he wende an honteb aday, to abbe solas. And bo he com hom he * wyllede, of ap lam preye to ete. Ac hys ,0 leches hym verbede, vor yt was a feble mete. Ac he nolde yt nogt byleue, vor he louede, yt wel ynou, And ete as in luber cas, vor bulke lampreye hym slou. Vor anon rygt berafter in to anguysse he drou, And deyde vor bys lampreye, boru hys owe wou. 1 A bysshop of Carlel, wher neuere none was er, He mak- ed, and douwed him to serue God ther Ar. 2 Alle the furst yere, Ar. ' Ros a litelle, Ar. 4 Wolde in Engelond glad ly haue I bene, But he by. lefte Ar. . 5 A yenst Ar. 6 Emperesse. Thelke tyme Henry kyug, as Ich vnder- stanue, Made alle the lordes of Normandye, and of Enge lond, Swore helde & trewe be to themperisse and hure sone, And in hure state to meynteyne hem after lawe & wone. Kyng Henry ganne to wexe in elde and into feblesse, Ar. " Acoled Ar. 8 Sd that in the forest of Lyones he hunted to haue solas, Ar. 9 Wilncd, a lamprey Ar. 10 Leches seide, hit was for him vuholsom mete Ai\ lie Robert of Gloucester's' Chronicle. 443 He sede ofte in hys deb vnel, ar he were dede, (f Alas! alas! of Engelond ne con ych none rede. t( Vor gyf ych ym bytake my soster sone Steuene de Bleys, " Vor he nys nogt rygt eyr, he ne worb neuere peys. '* And gyf ych ym bytake be rygt eyr Henry, my dogter sone, " bat nys nogt gut bre ger old, yt worb hym sone by nom. And nabeles al Engelond, & Steuene de Bleys also, To emperesse & hyr sone adde holde obes ydo. 1 be vorste day of Decembre kyng Henry ben deb nome, In be syxe & bryttybe ger of hys kynedome. And in enlene hondred ger, & syxe & brytty berto, Of oure Louerde's burtyme, deb hym com bus to. Ac Roberd Courtehose, hys brober, as God wOld, les bat lyf Aboute bre ger byuore, in prison at Kerdyf, And byuore be heye '* wened in be abbeye of Gloucestre y- bured ys, And Wyllam, be god knygt hys sone, was al so ded ywys, And aslawe bygonde see, ar kyng Henry ded were^ So bat of bulke kunne ber nas bo non fere. 1 The. iiii. Nonas of De cember the ertliche deth he nom, In the xxxv. yere of his kyngdome, And in the. M1. c. xxxvi. also Of oure Lcde's burthe tyme, that his dethe cam him to Ar. * Auter Ar. Ste- 444 Robert of Gloucester's Chronkle. ? STEUENE be Bleys,. bat god knygt & stalwaTd was also, bo be kyng was ded hys vrtcle, anoper he bogie do* TTic-hand.llonrv.Stephene. * In the yere of oure Lorde. Mj. c. xxxvie. Stephene Bleys, (the sone of Stephene, "Erie , of Bleys, of Ele, the conque. rour's doghter & kyng Hen. ry's suster) the xxii. dfcy after his vncle's dethe was croun. ed kyng at of Wil- liam Cuyrboille, Archebis- shop of Canterbury, as by nethe in ryme shalle be tolde. Stephene, the fader of this Stephene, hadde .gete on Ele, kyng Henry's suster. iiii. sones, and when this Ste phene was dede in the coun. trey of the Est, the moder of hem, as a felle and a wyse woman, ordeyned hem in this wyse. hure furste sone by cause he rias not wyse, i putte a way. Hur iide. sbne Thebaude she ordeyned, hure fader's heire. The .iii*1. Stephene withinne age s'heo sente to kyng Henry, hure broker, Hure sone Stephene, [sic'j to noryshyng an to au. nance as his neuew. The. iiii. sone Henry slieo let make monek atte Chine, that me ne shulde nat segge, that heo hadde bore alle hure children to (he worlde onliche by pros- ses of tyme Thenne after. warde kyng let marye Ste-' phene forsaide to Molde, (the doughter and heire of Eu stace, Erie of Boloyne,) i gete on Marie, Molde the goode quene's suster, kyng Macolynus daghters of Scot londe. And with his nevew kyng vHenry yaf the Erie. domes of Morteyne and of Constance in Normandye. And Henry the monek a fcoue saide kyng Henry let take oute of Clune, and made him abbot of Glastenbury, and af ter yaf him the bisshopriche of Wynchestre. So that by the Pope's dispensation he heolde bothe dignitees in his honde, thourgh whiche he gadered to muche tresoure, wherthourgh he was clepud bisshop Henry the Riche com- mentiche a mong the -peple. Whiche lette make an heghe toure atte frounte of Seynt Swythene, that vnnethe suthe any man myght part or throwe doune the walles, alle thow byshop William Edyng. don that the gable wyndow atte churche ende let assaye, to haue hadde hem doune. In Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 44S He verget al pe strong ob, pat he adde byuore To * emperesse & to Henry hyr gouge sone ysuore. * Ac he wende vorb hastelyche, to late hym crouny anon. 3 be" heymen of be lond * helde wyb hym echon, Bobe byssopes & ober, bat be oj? suor al so er. A Seyn Steuene's day 5 anon, be croune vorst he bere. And be erchebyssop of Canterbury, Wyllam bat bo was, Sacrede hym, 6 as yt was rygt, wel synuolyche, alas! Vor he was be vorst, as rygt was & wone, bat 7 holde obes to pe emperesse suor, & lo byr sone. beruor berafter sone wreche of God .hem come. Vor wybynne be vorst ger hys lyf God bynome. Brennyng of Paule's churche. In the yere of oure Lorde. M>. cxxxvi. the churche of Seynt Paule's atte Lon done was brente. And thus, by as. sent of Bisshop Henry the riche, and Roger Bisshop of Saresbury, was kyng Ste phene i crouned ; and also the Erchebisshop William, and other, assented the mor ther. to, for a grete man of pis londe, thulke tyme the.kynge's stywarde, Hughe Bigot by name, aftermed by othe3 to for the lordes, that for cer- teyne couutrouersies, that is, debates by the kyug and his doughter late i spronge, he hadde disherited hur for e- uere, ; and hadde ordeyned Stephene his heire. I The Emperice, and Robert Erie of Gloucetre hur bastarde brother, while thes thynges were doo in Engelonde, wene ' in Normandie, and occupied certayne castels there, and by- cause Henry Curtmantelle, hure sone, was of to tendre age, suffred fort they seighe tyme. Stephene the Bleys, he gode knyght & kynge's uevew also, Tho his vncle ded was, he cast what to do Ar. ' Themperice Ar. 2 And wende forthe hasteliche, and lete Ar. } Deest Ar. * As sented many on, Both of bys- shopes Ar. 5 Forsothe, ferst croune he bere. Therchehis- shop Ar. 6 As right were, synfullychc, alas ! Ar. 1 He- olde to the Emperice Ar. And Hyiaf. 446 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. And be byssop Roger of Salesbury after hym suor anon, And prechede vaste ' bat folc, pen op to holde echon. And po was he principal, be sacryng vorto do, And, vor ensample of hem, obere * ensentede berto. Ac kyng hymsulf gef subbe hys mede, vor he nom hym vaste, And in prison hym huld, & wrecchelyche he deyde atte laste. * Bote sstortlyche alle bo, bat ben ob suore byuore To be emperesse, turnede bo to be kyng Steuene, & were ver- suore. And wonder yt was, bat * alle be lond in a stounde anon Turnde to hym so verlyche, & were versuore echon. Kyng Henry brayn, & gottes, & eyen ybured were At Reynys in Normandye, & subbe be bones hii bere, Wel yseld & ysode, to be abbeye of Redynge, And yburede ys bere vayre ynou, as vel to an kyng. gut byuore tuelf day & kyng Steuene, as be hende, Fram hys crounyge of Londone agen hys vncle gan wende, And be erchebyssop of Canterbure, & be bext of be lond also, And be bones burede vayre ynou, as rygt was to do. bo wende be kyng ban ene to Oxenford anon, And be gode lawes, bat he behet, confermede echon. 'The folke ther on to holde echon. And thulke were the principalles, the Ar. 1 Assented Ar. ' And short. liche also tho, Ar. 4 Alle a londe at on tyme echeon Tournede were so lightlich, and with seide non. Thenne by fore twelf the day kyng Stephene, as the hende, From his coroment fro Lon.- done to Redy ng^ warde gan wende, With therchebisshop) and manye heye men mo, And buryed kyng Henry's body, as righte was to do. Fro thenne wende forthe the kyng fro [sic pro for sive to]Oxen- forde anon, And goode lawes Ar. And Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle! 447 And gyf byssop, oper abbed, in bys lond ded were, He grantede, bat boru kyng non destourbance nere, bat me ne chose in Tygte fourme anober anon, 1 And bat, wanne were vndervonge, hys londes adde echon. And oper monye luber lawes, bat hys elderne adde ywrogt, He behet, bat he wolde abates, & nabeles he ne dude nogt. be wule he was bus at Oxenford, tytynge hym com, bat Dauyt, kyng of Scotlond, * myd treson nome be cyte of Carloyl, &be nywe castel al so. " s Me ge," quab be kyng, " bo anober we ssolde do. " bat he ab * y nome wyb treson, we ssolde wib maystrie. Anon he' wende buderward wyb vayr compaynye. bo be kyng of Scotlond yt.wuste, agen hym he com, And grantede al bys wylle, & ' be" acord nome. Ac hys man nolde he nogt bycome, vor he was byuore (As monye ober in Engelond) to be empresse ysuore. So bat be vorste tuo ger 7 gode cas & hap ynou In ech alf com to be kyng Steuene, ac subbe yt wybdrou. Vor in be brydde ger be kyng of Scotlond Worrede by Norbe, & orn up hys londe. be erl Roberd of Gloucestre, as man wyboute fere, be strong castel of Brystow, bat he let hym sulf rere, Astored wel ynou, & alsobe slede, And held hem bobe age be * kyng, to benche on kunhede. 'And, whenne he were vn. derfonge, his londes haue e- chon Ar. *. With treson hadde i nome Ar. > "Ye," quod the kyng, « thenne a " nother wole we doo Ar. 4 Gete Ar. s Shulle Ar. 6 Deest Ar. t Goode grace and helpe i noughe To this kyng Stephae cam, ac suthe Ar. 8 Kyng, ("for his vn- kyndehede,) For themperke hi« 448 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle; Vor emperesse was hys soster, fc beq, louede hym vqbffel. And be castel of Cary held x one " WyUam Louel<] And be caslel of Lodelpwe held Syre Paynel. And Syre Roberd of Lyncolne held of Waram be castel, And be castel of Donstere Syre Wylkiq de * Moun, bat be priorye, as ych wene, rerde of Breutoun. Eustas le fy & Jon" held be castel of Meltone, And be castel of 3 Ssresbury held Wyllam Aleyne's sone* Alle bes were agen be kyng, as 4 verbuorb as hii coube, So bat he adde 5 fon by Norbe & by Sogbe; He bygan to be luber ynou. vor vorst hajy.chyrahe He bygan to * worry, bat made hym be worse wurche. Vor be wende to Oxenford, & bo he buder com, be byssop of Salesbury & of Lyncolne he nome. be byssop of Salesbury he ladde myd gret wo , To be castel of Dyuyses, bat pe byssope',s was bo. An rop me dude aboute hys necke, he suor honge he ssolde 7 Anon, bote he be castel anon bym vp golde. be byssop hym toke be castel, po apex bote nas. He nom bere al hys tresour, bat wybout noumbre was, his suster, that he loued welle Ar. 1 Deest Ar. * Moyon, That in the Prioury is bu ried of Bruton. Eustace filz Johu Ar. 3 Shirbourne Ar. 4 Ferforth Ar. s Foon i now by Northe and eke by Ar. 6 Werry, Ar. " Bute his men with inne thane ca- stelle uppe yolde. The men yolde up thane castille, tho' other bote nas. So that the kyng his tresoure hadde with. oute nombre that was. For the bisshop was holde in prison forth, for his gret goodnessc, That he the kyng dude, and was forswor to Molde thempe- resse Ar. And Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. .449 And held hym vorb in prison gut, & geld hym hys godnesse bat he dude hym, & was versuore agen be emperesse. Agen wende be kyng to Oxenford, & pe byssop vette Alysandre of Lyncolne, bat he in prison sette. And ladde hym to be neweworc, to a nayr castel & god, pat pe byssope's was, & vp Trent stod. per he suor4 bat pe byssop neuere ete ne ssolde, Ne drynke nabemo, ar pe castel hym were ygolde. be byssop was wo ynou, vor he wuste Wel, bey he wolde gelde hym vp be castel, bys men wybynne nolde. He bed hem, & cryde on hem, ac al yt was vor nogt. So pat bys byssop was ne to grounde ybrogt Myd ' honger^ bat men adde reube bat hym knewe. He wep & cryde on hys men, bat hii ssolde on hym rewe, bat he nere to debe ypyned, pat hii seye wel he ssolde. So bat to sauy hys lyf be castel vp hii golde. be kyng nom berynne be byssope's tresorye, And in bys manere lo ! bygan hys '¦* worre myd robberye, bat laste here in Engelond bobe gret & strong * Wel an seuentene ger, & bat was ? al to long. be erchebyssop of Canterbury, & ober byssopes also, So sory wer vor bys dede, bat hii nuste wat to do. At Wynchestre a parlement hii helde of 5 bys byng, So bat wel pitoslyche hii wende alle to be kyng, And velle adoun to hys fet, &.pytbslycbe bede, bat he ssolde, vor Gode's loue, amendy such dede. ' And thurst addit Ar. •i Werre Ar. i A boute a xvii. Ar. 4Sumdelle long Ar. i These Ar. Vol. II. e Ac 450 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Ac al yt was bo vor nogt, vor to worse euere he drou. be byssopes ne coube ober red, bote were wo ynou. ' be byssop of Salesbury deyde sone bo, Of wan we abbeb er yspeke, in pur meseyse & wo. f Prose more plennereof the same ma ter. 1 The ii. bisshopes a boue seide sone deide thoo For so- rowe and 'mysayse, that to hem was i do. H Kyng Stephne in his iiii. yer beyng atte Oxenfprde, lete take Roger bisshop of Sa lesbury, and Alisaundre bis shop of Lyncolne, &, as gul. tye of many wrQn,gys, putte hem in Prisone, and byname hem hur Castels and hure tresoures. These, ii. /bisshop. pes to fore that tyme were the most a losed bisshoppes, among alle other. Roger, for. sothe, by Henry the ferst, themperice fader, was a- uaunced', and was maked, in mynystryng of ned«s of the regne, the secunde fro the kyng. so that he gadered muche tresoure, thourghe whiche he made. ii. noble ca stels, that is to seye, of Shir- bourne and the Vyse, with huge costmous werke. And to his neuew Alisaundre he gat tlie byssoprich of Lyncolne, whiche in castejle makyng was evene to his vncle. Na- theles yut after wardes he bythynkyr.g, that suche ca- stellwerk was nat semyng to Religion, in a mendement of that trespas, he maked so ma. ny minstres of Religion, and endowed hem with londes and rentes. Roger byssop of Saresbury a bouesaide was the ferst, that dude his othe to the emperice, while hur fader lyued, to be trewe & liege after to hure after his Aeh, and noughte onliche swor ferst, but a betted alle other to sweer also, and spak the wordes of the kynge's wille, and after that, to haue the fauour of kyng Stephene, he was nat shamed to be on of the ferst, that brake the fealte of the Emperice, and swoor newe to kynge Stephene, and sp yaf to many other ensam- ple of mydoyng, as into whiche bisshop, as hit were by Godde's ordenaunce, kyng Stephene was ordeyned to do -spniaunce, and yeue him; penaunce, ferst by Prisone- ment, and after by scarsenesse of mete and drynke. The bys- shop Alexaun,dre of Lyncolne in the same wyse he destress- ed, that he was fayn to yelde him Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 451 Vndr pat pe emper esse to Engelond com, To calangy, after hyre fader, by rygte be kynedom. In be castel of Arundel vorst heo gan abyde* To loke wat were best to do, & to conseyly in eche syde. pe kyng Steuene yt wuste, buder sone he com," Myd poer gret ynou, & ben castel nome, And bys lady berinhe, so bat vor franchise He let hyre go ware heo wolde, & ne dude nogt as pe wyse. And heo wende to Brystow, & byleuede bere In hyre brobr castel, strong ynou, vorte betere cas were. Syre ' Rauf, erl of Chestre, hadde yspoused ywys 1 be Robertus douter of Gloucestre, of wan we tolde arji ys. So bat he huld wyb be emperesse, (vor 3 el yt were amys) And ladde ost gret ynou age be kyng and hys. He wende & nom Lyncolne, & be kynge's men out caste, And sette ber inne folk ynou^ & wende aboute vaste. him vp. ii. noble castells, in whiche his „ tresours were. For he was the kynge's Tre. sourer. Rogger a boue saide, as me seide, in sorrow and mySeise ended his lyf, and Alexandre also, a gret En. sample to aftercomers. Gef frey, Erie of Angeo, them- perice housbodde, entred in. toNormandie, of whiche, for to haue trewes with hem. iii. yere, he toke by yere M1. marc. Anno quinto. Ryme. f The fifte yere of kyng Stephene ' Molde themperice Com To Engelond, to cha. lengi by ryght the kyngdom, And Robert Erie of Glouce. tre with hure, hure half bro ther, also welle, Atte Mi chelle masse tyde, as hit thoo by felle. And furst the toke hwe loggyng ia the castelle of Arundelle. Whenne kyng Stephne hurde here of, sone he thedur come Ar. ¦ Randolf Ar. * Erie Roberte's doughter of Glou- cetre, of whham ieh tolde er this Ar. * Elles Ar, G 2 pe 452 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. be kyng bo, be syxte ger of hys kynedom, Myd hys poer to Lyncolne ' to Mydwynter com, Vor to nyme ben toun vphem, bat were bere inne, And asalede hym vaste myd strengbe & myd gynne. So bat be erl of Chestre, & be erl Robert also Of Gloucestre, hem garkede, & mony god knynt bertoy And wende toward Lyncolne, batayle vor to abyde, So bat hii z garkede her ost in eyber syde. be erles 3 hordeyne her ost, bo hii were ysuore. be erl of Chestre 4 hii made wardeyn of be ost byuore. Hii sette deserytes in be myddel ost bo, bat be kyng adde bynome her lond, & so muche wo ydo. be erl Roberd of Gloucestre in be brydde was ydo. And gut bere was of Welsse men be verbe ost berto, Iordeyned wel ynou in a place bysyde, bat lygte were & hardy, muche folk to abyde. bo s bys compaynye was bus ydygt, be erl of Chester anon Spek 6 toward be erl of- Gloucestre, & be knygtes echon. '« Syre noble erl," he sede, u & ge noble knygtes also, " Myd god wylle ic banky gou, as ic wel aute 7 do, '* bat ge me so muche loue shewyb & * kun dede, " And sywejj me in such pereyl, & in debe's drede. " And wan ic ham enchesun of such pereyl ywys, "Vorst ych wulle berynne » do me sulf, vor rygt yt ys, 1 At Midsomer com, Ar. * Ordeyned hure hostes Ar. * Ordeyned hure hostes, Ar. 4 Wardeyne was i maked alle byfore. He sette the disse. rites in the myddel warde thoo, Ar. s These hostes were i sette, the Erie Ar. 6 To the Erie of Gloucestre, and other knyghtes echeon Ar. i To doo, Ar. « Kyndhede, Ar. 9 My self putte, as ryght is, Ar. " And Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 453 *' And vorst asayle ben false kyng, & bringe hym to goke, " bat be gret ob, bat he suor, so ' vyllyche ab to broke. " On me sulue ych truste muche, & be more vor hys vnrygt. " My wey ycholle make sone, as a stalward knygt. u Syweb me, bat go byuore, & smyteb al so " After me, vor ych yse al hou ycholle do, « Hou ycholle percy be ost, & knygtes adoun caste, " And bete wyb bys suerd pen false kyng vaste. pe erl Roberd of Gloucestre spec bo bys ywys: " Syre gong bacheler," he sede, " wel we wytyb bys, <£ *bat * bun art strong & corageus, & nogt vnwurbe also, " be yoiste * chyualerye in be batayle to do. " * And nabeles bou ne mygte yt esle nogt,bote vor bynges tuo, " Ober vor nobleye of heye kynne, ober vor prowesse ydo. " gyf bou seyst 5 yt vor nobleye kunne, bou nart nogt wel vnderstonde. " Vor ic was be kynge's sone, bou 6 wost wel, of bys londe. " ' Vor by prowesse, ne worb nogt yt. vor knygtes her beb somme, " bat myd ober knygtes * power nere neuere" ouercome. " Ac anober resun wel ver raeueb me more berto, " bat be kyng, age ben ob, bat he hab age my soster ydo, * Villiliche i broke. On my self Ar. * Thow Ar * Poynt of chiualrie in this bataille Ar. 4 But that myght thow aske not, but for thynges twoo, As for noble. nesse of heighe 'kynne, Or for prowesse i do Ar. s Hit for Ar. 6 Wotest Ar. 7 And for thy prowesse, ne worth hit not. Ar * Prowesse ne uer were Ar. g3 « Myd 454 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. « Myd vnrygt * halt bys kynedom, & desturbeb * bat lond ywys, « And of mon? bousend mannus deb enchesun he ys. 1 ' He bynymyb men her rygtes, & kund erytage also, " And delyueryb yf ober men, bat non rygt abbeb berto. " Ac o byng ych gou segge sob, bat, boru 3 po luber wey ywys, *f + bat ge come vnnebe hyder boru, non hope per nys " Vor to fie, he ys so luber, as ge alle yseye, " banne ne beb ber bote tueye weyes, ober her rygt deye, Loke mote atte Ar. ' yeme,. Ar. 8 Helde othe to Ar. "Ryst Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 457 " Rygt ys, agen hys ' versuorye bat we wyb hym gon. " Our noumbre ys ek of our men, * as muche as of our fon. " be prowesse 3 of bys noblemen wo mygte telle myd moube, " bat in arrays yproued beb by Norbe 4 & by Soube ? " be prowesse of our kyng ys as wyboute ende. " s Vor setteb hym one baldelyche agen an hondred to wende, u And wanne our lyge louerd, bat 6 yheled ys, " And ysmered to Jhesu Christ, bat such body non nys, " Is here amydde vs alle, to susteyny hys rygte, " Muche bone were yt vs of God, myd hym vor to fygte " We trewe & in sobnesse" agen hem bat false beb. " Age wat men ge ssolle fygte wel ge seb. " Of be erl Roberd of Gloucestre ge ne dorre abbe non drede. wurb ywys. " Vor euere mo bat ber beb, z of be betere to vs yt ys. " Nou ge noble knygtes, of 3 wat ge abbeb ydo, " Of prowesse vnderstondeb, & of gour elderne also. " 4 Subeb to day goure manhede, bat yt s mowe wende *' To gou & to goure 6 chyldren to honour wibouf en ende. " be 7 wone & vse, bat ge abbeb euer to be aboue, " baf agte gou * make abbe to fygte be betere loue. u And bat goure fon abbeb euere bynebe ybe, " bat ssal hem brynge sone in wylle vor to fie. " * Ichot ynam nogt bygabbed, bat yt ne of bencheb hem, by bys il Wel sore, bat hii here come, vor hii bybencheb hem ywys, " Hou hii mygte best fie, gyf hii wuste in wucbe syde. " I0 Ac wanne hii " vyte ware fie, ne hii ne dorre abyde, *' Wat mygte hii banne more do, bote gelde hem alstylle, " And her hors & her armes be & hem sulue at our wylle ? *' banne ge noblemen an hansyeb goure bojt, " And auongeb noube Gode's grace, bat God gou a]? ybrogt. * Men, lowde crye and show te Jr. *Of hem, the better Ar. * That ye Ar. 4 Kuthe Ar. s May Ar. 6 Children day with outen ende Ar. '• Custume and the vs, Ar. 8 To make to fyght with tlie better wille & loue Ar. 9 And welle Iche wote, hit hem of thenkethe sothely I wys Whelle sore, tha:t hii huder come, and bithenkethe this, Ar. IO And whanne hii ne witethe hoder to fleo, ne hii ne dhrre a bide Ar. " L. ne vyte. He Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 459 He ne mygte of hys reson ' nogt come to laste, bat her fon toward * hem ne come prykye vaste. be„erbe dunedevnder hem, vor stappes pat harde were. be hors neyde & lepte, bat yt was gret fere. be batayle bygan strong ynou, vor be deserytes goniie chese, Raber ban to lese her lond, her lyf bere to lese. Hii s pulte hem vorb 4 byuore be obere, as godemen & agte. Hii asaylede be vorst ost, & brogte yt sone to nagte, bat be erl Aleyn of Brutayne, as chef, was in do. And Hue erl of Estangle, & be erl of Melts al so, And be erl of Warenne ek, alle bes in a stounde, And her folc be deserytes brogte. ywys to grounde. In bre partye hii 5 were to deld. vor ber flowe somme, And ' somme y wounde & aslawe, & 7 sone were ynome. be secund ost of be kynge's half, bat the erl inne was Of ' Ammar & Wyllam of ypre, ne lykede nogt bys cas. To be Welsse ost hii smyte vorst, & to ground » smyte" vaste, And ,0 velle her & ber, & flowe atte laste. be erl of Chestre myd hys ost bo he sey bys, bat hys Welsse men eode adoun, he smot vorb ywys, And to drof hem al to nogt, bat hem adde ouercome. Vor hii slowe monyon, & ber flowe somme. " bo bat be kyng Steuene, '* byleue alone bere Myd an vewe of hys men, '* bat wel stalwarde were, 1 Vnnethe come to the laste, Ar. aHem come pri- kyng faste Ar. sPutte Ar. 4 By fore other, as good men oughte. Ar. s Were depart ed for Ar. 6 Somme were i slawe, & somme wer i nome Ar. , 7 Pro, some. 8 Aumarle and William of Ipers, Ar. 9 Slowe Ar. IO Hii felle Ar. "So that Ar. "By lafte Ar. '^That noble and stalworthe were, Ar. To 460 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. To gadere hii turnde her rugges, & fogte vaste aboute, And ne * bolede nogt, pat her fon percede be route. be opere wende al aboute vaste wybout fayle, As yt were aboute a castel, bat me wolde asayle. Duntes per were strong ynou, bat be fur out sprong Of be helmes al about, & somme velle among. bere me mygte of one body yse gret * prowesse be kyng, pat so defended hym, as in such destresse. bo be erl of Chestre hym yse, to hym anon he drou Myd al be poer 3 bat was hys, & asayled hym ynou. bere bygan a nywe batayle al vp be kyng one, And he hym sulf myd vewe mo, as wo.seb, agen echone. Tueye suerdes be kyng adde, be beste of eny lond, ) be on hy hys syde, be ober in bys hond. Here to grounde men he slou, & here he woundede also. Atte laste boru stronge duntes hys suerd 4 berst atuo. He drou out hys ober sone, as stal vi ard knygt ynou. 5 Mony was bat gode body, bat he berwyb slou. Atte laste ' yt berst atuo, as yt nede moste ywys. Syre Wyllam de Keynes, bo he sey bys, He sturte to & hente hym by be suerde anon. Loude he gan to grede, " comeb vorb echon, " Vor be kyng ychabbe an honde, ych hym holde vaste. 7 bat folc com about hym, & nome hym atte laste. 1 Suffred nat hur foon, for to perisshe. hure route Ar. 2 Prowesse, Kyng defended him self welle, as in suche destresse Ar. s That he hadde, and Ar. * Brak a twoo Ar. s Many wounded he there. with, and many eke sloughe Ar. 6 Hit brake also, as nede hit most I wys Ar. i The folke com thikke a boute him, Ar. And Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 461 And syre Baldewyne also, pat hys conseyler was bere, And syre Rychard ' le Fytours, bat gode knygtes were. And alle * ober afterward hii slowe, ober nome. Iu to Lyncollne myd be kyng atte laste hii come. bo bys batayle was ydo, & hii were al out of howe, Hii 'sende be kyng myd gode ward to be tour of Biistow, ber as be emperesse was, bat was hys meste fo. 4 bere hii wuste hym vaste ynou, & somdel in wo. be emperesse held hyr bo bobe kyng & queue, And wende aboute 5 boru be lond, & hyr poer made ysene. Of be byssop ofWynchestre & ober byssopes also As prynce heo was vnderuongo, & of be Londreys berto, And so boru out al Engelond, 6 bote of be contreye of Kent Vor syre Wyllam of ypre was buderward ywend, 7 And be quene also, be kyng wyf, & obere of bulke syde, And bulke contreye 8 bul vaste, betere vorto abyde. bo be emperesse was in such poer ybrogt, So luber & prout heo was, bat me ne mygte yt bolye nogt. Hey men ' heo let nyme vaste, & in strong pryson do. be Londreys heo dude ssame ynou, & mony ojier also. be kyng in strong yre heo let sette vaste. So bat tD heo wende myd poer to Wynchestre atte laste, Kyng Dauyd of Scotlond, bat was hyre moder brober, And Roberd erl of Gloucestre, & also mony anober, ' De Filz vrs, Ar. * The other Ar. * Sente Ar. 4 And him kepte fast i now, that he ne myght out goo Ar. Un the Ar. « Saf of Ar. ' And kyng Stephne's quene also, and other in thulke syde, Ar. 8 They heolde faste, the better Ar. 9 Heo toke faste, and lete in Prison do Ar. 10 Hii wende with strong. power Ar. And 463 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. And be byssope's castel bysegede, ' bat wende be al her owe- Wanne wymmen al maystres beb, vnele hii beb to know. po be gode men of be lond hyre luberhede yseye, Hii gonne turne agen hyre, bobe lowe & heye. After syre Wyllam of * ypre & be quene poer al so be byssop sende, bat hii come, socour hym to do. Hii come bo myd gode wylle, & heyemen mon yon, And be Londreys myd her poer, & her ost grebed echon, And smyte bere an batayle, & manye brogte to debe. be emperesse bygan to lie, & of scapede vnnebe. Manye of byre 3 gode men ifleynde ynome were, And erl Roberd of Gloucestre Was ek ynome bere. Vor byre luberhede be emperesse al bynebe bo was. Heo mygte, wanne heo hom com, segge, * " sy haust, sybase." Of be kynge's crounement as in be syxte gere Bobe, as ych abbe ytold, bys batayles ydo were. be erl delyuered bo be kyng, & be kyng hym * by god ob, By such vorewarde ymad, bat hii were delyuered bobe. bo kyng Steuene was delyuered, ' he fondede hys proesso, gyf be mygte eny tyme hente 7 be emperesse. At Oxenforde be emperesse was bo in be castel. be kyng hys poer & hys ost garkede bo wol wel, 1 That wende beo his awne. Whanne womman alle mastre is, wondre sheo is to knowe Ar. * ypres and the quenus Ar. * Worthy men fleyng i take were, Ar. 4 Or cy haut cy bas Ar. s By his Othe, Ar. <> He fonde by prowesse, Ar. i Themperes. se. Atte Wilton he cast a strengthe his Enmys to kepe, for which he was i chased a way, and of his men an hepe I slayne sodeynliche, er they* wer i war. Sir William Mar. telle, the kynge's asseore, take eke was ther, Whiche, quik for to goo fre wher he wolde, Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 463 And wende vorb to Oxenford aboute Myhelmasse, And vorto" Mydewynter ney byseged be emperesse. So gret * forst per com in Aduent, bat men mygte agryse, bat me mygte bobe ryde & go in Temese * vpe yse. be emperesse by bogte," & dude as be wyse. Wyte clobes heo dude hyre on, as, wo seyb, ylych be snow, bat me ne ssolde 3 vor be lyknesse yse hyre, ne knowe ; And vpe be yse of Temese * wende vorb, & so s to Oxenford Al Soubward in to be med, & so to Walyngford. In be seuene ger of hys kynedom be kyng be castel nom, Ac be emperesse ne vond he nogt, bo lie yn com. Muche robberye me dude aboute in euerych toun, 6 And bounde men & enprisonede, vorte hii fynede raunson. Hii ne sparede nanmore clerkes, ban lewed men ywys. So bat be byssopes, vorto amendy bys In be i eygtebe gere of the kynge's kynedom At Londone hii hulde a parlement, bat * many man to com, wolde, Resyngned vp Shir- bourne castelle, that he had holde. Themperise atte Ox- enforde was in the castelle. The kyng Stephne with his host thuder wende snelle. Atte Michelle masse to Oxen- forde they come, as Ich gesse, And fort Ar. 1 Frost Ar. x Upon the Ise. A grete snow ther was also, therefore ane queyntyse Themperise hure bythought, Ar. i Hur perceyue, ne for whitnesse know Ar. 4 Heo wende fro Oxenforde, Alle Suthe into the mede^ Ar. s Rectius fro, ut in'Ar. 6 And prysoned richemen, for they yene raunsone Ar. i viii. Ar. 8 Muche folke to com, And the kyng him self benyngliche ther was also. And ther was hit ordeyned, ho so honde sette to Upon Clerke, in vio lence, Religious or seculer, He shulde faile into the grete curs for his myster, And be nat a;so,led, fort to the Pope he come, So that to Clerkes after 464 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. And pe kyng hym sulf was berate, hii amansede bo Alle bulke, bat clerkes such despyt dude & wo, bat no man, bote be pope one, hem asoyly ne mygte, So bat me huld clerkes; berafter bet to rygte. after ward me toke the more gome Ar. in quo Sf hic loci hmc habemus, inter alia, ab auctore prosa'ico scripta de morte Galfridi Graundeville (vel, ut alii, Maundeville) Sf Roberti Marmyon : After that kyng Stephne, nat vn mynde- fulle of the shame, that Gef frey Graundeville dude to him, while he was in warde, (as in holdyng the toure of Lon done, and in takyng the bis shop of Londone, .and other doyngges,) iu a tyme, as this Geffray cam to the kynge's Court atte Seynt Albone's, thenkyng not but good, by cause of the assuraunce, that was made in the deliuer- aunce of kyng Stephene, the kyng, foryetyng his Royalle honeste, toke this Geifray, and imprisoned him, fort he hadde yolde vp the toure of Londone, with other streng- thes. And he, whanne he was delyuered, gadered him a company* of luther doyng men, toke with mastrey the Abbey of Ramsey, and putte oute the monkes, and made castelle of the Abbey, & made preys, & greued the coun tre with many greuaunces, and many assautes yaf to the king. This Geffrey after ward, in the seege of a ca stelle, i shot of a foteman with an arwe, deyde. f A nother man, of the same doyng as this Geifray, was Robert Marmyon by name, that hadde take the mynstre of Couentre, and put oute the monekes, as he wolde goo with an host a yenst Randolf Erie of Chestre, comyng with his host, he felle in a diche, brake his thye, and so he myght nat rise, but was of on of his Enmys byhefded. Cotton Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 465 Cotton Library, Caligula A. xi. Foi. 130. b. nb. for In al Seld. 4 And ciem alteram, p. 97, 100, 102, I Seld. s Vre dere Lourd Seld. -Lond.l6lO.Sfejusd.tract.ver. « Them Seld. 7 They withsed, sionemAngl.p.74,75,77. Item I Seld. « Yuman Seld. 9 Sub. Selden's England's Epino- j audi, wille. "> Yuinan Seld. mis, p. 22, 23, 24. » Them j Ano- Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 471 Another thing he grauntede ek, as ze mowe nou ise. Zuf a man of holi chirche ' halt eni lay fe, 1 Person, other wat he be, he sal dotheruore Kinge's servise, that ther * valp, that is riz te ne be uor lore ; In playdinge & in asise be, & in jugement also, Bote war man sal be bilemed, other to dethe ido* He grantede ek, zuf eni man the kinge's traytour were, & eni man 4 of" is 5 chatens to holi churche bere, That holi churche ne solde nougt the 6 chateus there lette. That the king there, other is, as is owene, is ne ' vette. Voral that the felon hath, the kinge's it is. & ech man mai in holicluirche is owene take ywis. He grantede ekj that a churche of the kinge's fe In none stede ene & euere s no solde iziue be As to hous of religion, withoute the kinge's leue, &that he, other the patron, the zifte verst ' zeue. Seint Tomas grantede wel thes & other mo. Ac I0 this othere he withsede, that " dude him wel wo. Zuf bituene tueie lewede men were eni striuing. Other betuene a lewede & a clerc, vor holi churche thing, As vor voweson ofxhurche, '* wether solde the churche ziue, The king wolde, that in is court the pie solde be driue. Vor as muche as a lewed man, that the o partie was, Ft)k 133. ia Clanliche was vnder the king, & vnder no bissop nas. i Hath Seld. * Parson Seld. 3 Valth, Seld. 4 Deest Seld. s Chateux Seld. * Chateux Stld. 'Wette Seld. 8 Ne Seld. 9 Gaue Seld. '° These Seld. " Did Seld. " Whither Seld. « Chanliche Seld.1 h 4 Another 472 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Another Was, that * no bissep, ne'clerc nathemo, Ne solde withoule kinge's leue out of* this lond. go. & thanne hii solde suerie vpe the bok ywis, That hii ne solde purchasy nOn uvel the king, ne nori of his. The thridde was, zuf: eni man in ? mansinge were ibrouzf, & suththe come to amendement, ne 4 aze rigtemere nmt, '< That he ne suore 5 nouzt" upe the boc, ac 'borewes? finde solde, To stonde to that holi cbirchether of him 7 loky wolde. The verthe was, that no man, that of the kihge hulde ougt In chef, other in eni seniise, in mausinge nere ibrozt, Bote the wardeins of holi churche, that brozte him ther tot The king sede, other is bailifs, wat he adde misdo, & lokede verst, wer hii * wolde" to amendement it bringe, & bote hii wolde 9 be hor leue do the " mansinge. The tifte was, that bissopriches, & abbeies also, That " vacanns Were of prelas, in the kinge's " hond were ido, & that the king solde al the lond as is " owe take, Vort atte laste that him luste eni prelat ther make, & thanne thulke prelat solde in is chapele ichose be Of is clerkes, I+ wuche he wolde to such " prelat bi se. 1 No clerc, ne bishop Seld. in J ant Angl. fac. altera, sed ut nos in England's- Epinomis. » The Seld. in J. Angl.f. a. sed this in E. Ep. i Mausing Seld. 4 Age were nought, omisso rijte, Seld. t Omittit Seld.(> Borowes Seld. iTokySeld. * Deest Seld. 9 By their leue Seld. '° Mausing Seld. " Va- cans Seld. " Hand Seld: '» Owne Seld. m Which he wuld Seld. »J Sic etiam Seld. in Eng. Ep. fed prelace in Jani Ang. f. a. & Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 473 9c thanne, wan he were ichose in is chapele rigt there, Homage he solde him do, ar he confermed were. The sixte was, zuf eni play to chapitle were idrawe, & eni man made is apel, zuf me dude him vnlawe', That to the bissop fram ercedekne is apel solde make, & fram bissop to erchebissop, & suththe non ' herre take ; hier & bote the erchebissope's court to rigte him wolde bringe, That he solde fram him * bi clupe biuore the kinge. & fram the king non 3 herre mo. so that * atten ende Plaininge of holi chirche to the king solde wende, & the king 5 amendi solde the erchebissope's dede, & be as in the pope's stude. e ac Sein Tomas it withsede. The seuethe was, that plaidinge that of dette were, To zelde wel thoru treuthe iplizte, & nouzt iholde nere Al thei thoru treuthe- it were, that pie solde be ibrozt F°- 133- *>-. Biuore the king & is bailifs, & to holi churche nozt. * The eigtethe was, that in the londe citacion non nere . Thoru bulle of the pope of Rome, ' ac clene bileued were. The nithe was, that Petre's 8 panes, that me gadereth ma ni on, The pope nere nougt on isend, ac the, king ech on. The tethe was, zuf eni clerc as felon were itake, & vor felon iproued, & ne mizte it nozt uorsake, That me solde him uerst desordeini, & suthth thoru ' pur lawe,- & thoru jugement of the lond, honge him, other to drawe. ' Other take, Seld. 1 Be cluthe Seld. » Other mo Seld. * Attan Seld. t Amend Seld. 6 And Seld. 'And Seld. 8 Pence Seld. 9 There law, Seld. Vor 474 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Vor thes, & vor other mo, the gode mon Seint Tomas Fleu verst out of Engelond, & ' suththe ymartred was. Vor he sei ther nas bote o wey, other he moste stif be, Other holi churche was issent, * that mid rizte was so fre. Endleue hundred zer of grace, & foure & sixti therto, It was that Sein Tomas of londe wende so. The nexte zer ther after the ampcresse Mold Wende out of this line, as the boc ath itold. The king let crouni to kinge, art vif zer after this, Henri, is eldoste sone, at Westmunstre yvvis. As endleue hundred zer of grace, & sixti & tene, & sixtene zer he was old, tho he was icrouned, icb wene. The erchebissop of Euerwik, & the bissop of Londone, & of Salesbury, him crouncde, azen rizt & wone. Vor the erchebissop of Canterburi mid rizte it solde do. Tho Sein Tomas it wuste, gret deol he nom him to, That the churche of Kanterbury in such vnrigt was ibrogt. He nolde vor to tholie detlr leng tholie it nozt. He drou him towarde Engelond to is martirdom. As Gode's knizt he bigan, tho he hider com. He amansede alle thulke,. that such vnrizt adde ido To the churche of Canterbury, & the king icrouned so. The thre bissopes worth e were, & nome hom to rede, & wende vorth to Normandie, & the olde king it sede. The king was nei vor wraththe wod, & sede, zuf that he Amauseth alle thulke men, thanne amauseth he me. Fo. 134. He acorsede alle thulke men, that he hadde uorth ibrougt, Tbat of an false preste ne abbe eke him nougt. « Eke imartred Seld. * That of right Seld. That Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 475 That word he sede ofte in hastinesse ywis. Foure of the deuele's limes, is knigtes hurde this. Sire Reinaud Lefizours, sire Roger Brut al so, Sir Hue de MorUile, Sir Willam Traci ther to. Hii nome hom to rede,, & uor to paye is willej Wende uorth to Engelond hasteliche & stille. Tho the king com to is mete, & is knigtes mid him were, He bihuld & miste thulke foure there. "Is herte him zef anon, wuderward hii wende. In anguisse & sor ynou after hom he sende, Toward the se hasteliche, that hii come aze. Ar the messager come, hii were in the se. Hii wende hom vorth to Kanterburi, & in the churche rigt Hiimartreden Sein Tomas an Tiwesday at nizt. This gode man sat adoun a kne, & is heued buyede adoun, & wel softe, as some hurde, sede this orison : " God & Seinte Marie, & Sein Denis al so, " & alle the abowes of this churche, in was ore ich am ido, " Ich bitake min soule, & holi churche rizte. Zut he bed vor holi churche, tho he riadde other mizte. Sir Reinaud Lefizours, mest srewe of ech on, Vor to smite this holi man is suerd drou anon. Ac Edward Grim, that was isclerc, of Giantebrugge ibore, To helpe is louerd, zuf he mizte, pulte is arm biuore. He wounde his arm suithe sore, thut blod orn adoun. Mid thulke dunt ek he smot Sein Tomas upe the croun, That thut blod orn bi is face, in the rizt half of the wounde. Loude gradde the luther knizt, " smiteth alle to grounde." In 476 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. In thulke sulue wounde, an other him smot tho, That he abuyde is face adoun, vort ther com mo. The thridde in thulke sulue stede ther after smfjt anon, & made him a loute al adoun, is face vpe on the ston. In thulke stede the verthe smot, that the othere adde er ydo, & the point of is suerd brec in the marbreston a tuo. Fo. 134. b. Zut thulke point at Canterbury the monekes lateth wite, Vor honour of the holi man, that ther with was ismite. With thulke stroc he smot al of the scolle & ek the croune, That the brain orn al abrod in the pauiment ther doune. Tho this holi man imartred was, the knigtes gradde ech on, " This traitour is to dethe ibrozt, wende we henne anon. " Sywefh vi the kinge's men, & alle that mid him beth, " Of this traitor we beth awreke, as ze nou iseth. " He thouzte be herre than the king, & binime him is croune, " & to nouzte bringe al Engelond, & nou he lith ther doune. In ' endleue hundred zer of grace this gode man Sein Tomas, & sixti & endleuene, thus imartred was. Tho the king it wuste, he made deol ynou, So that vor, anguisse nei him snlue he slou. In the castel of Argenlein vourty dawes he was, In a chaumbre al one, withoute eni solas. In wop & sorwe & deol inou, & confort non him nas, Ac euere on the holi man criede Sein Tomas. So that tueie cardinals the pope him sende iwis, & hii him asoilede of that was ido amis. The. xi. c. yere An & Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 477 & he vndude the luther lawes, & grauntede alle the gode > That Sein Tomas esste, as hii vnderstode. Of forest & of other thing, that is elderne nome amis, He vndude, & ther to is chartre made iwis. Ac after is daye iholde febliche it was Of king Jon, & of othere, & natheles ther has Non of hom, that some time, mid wille thei it nere, Ne grauntede & confermede it, thei it lute wurth were. Vor mani is tbe gode bodi, that aslawe is theruore. To betere ende God it bringe, that vor vs was ibore. After Sein Tomas detbe aboute an zeres to, Ther spronk contek suithe strong, thei it luther were ido, Bituene king Henri the olde ' & the zonge mid wou. Vor the sone aros aze the fader, & dude him * same ynou, Thoru the king of France, was dozter was is wif. Vor thoru a vowe of him the sone bigan that strif. Vor the king of Fraunce, & the erl of Flaundres ther to, F«. iss. & Sir Roberd erl of Leicestre, & Sire Hue Bigod also, & the king of Scotlond ek, & manie ' other knizt, With the sone aze 4 fader hulde with vnrizt. Hii destruede & robbede the fader londes mid wou. The fader was in Normandie, & deol made ynou. He huld it al wreche of God, vor Sein Tomas 5 martirdom. 1 And Henri his sone with wo Ar. z Shame tho, Thourgh helpe of the kyng of Fraunce, whas doughter he had to wyue. For thourgh a vowery of him the rather he gan to stryf Ar. 3 A no ther Ar. 4 The fader Ar. s Lege, cum Ar. martirdome, And natheles to Engelond with grete power ha come. The Erie Sfc. The 478 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. The erl" Willam of Gloncestere huld mid .him vaste, & mani * other trewe knizt, so that atte laste, (* Ac the olde king at Canterbury, mid gode herte & wille, Hurde is masse of Sein Tomas, & cride him merci stille. Is ost & is sone ost, the wule masse ilaste, Smile an stronge bataile, so that atte laste.)" Thoru 3 grace of Sein Tomas, * is men ouercome 1 Hor fou, & the king of Scotlonde nome. & Sir Hue Bigod ek, & the erl of Leicetre, Inome was thoru Willam, erl of Gloucestre. Mani on ther was aslawe, 6so that this uair cas The king it thonkcde eueridel the gode man Sein Tomas. So that the fader & the sone acorded were tho. Ac the sone's herte aze the fader was euer mo. T& tbe bretheren hulde al so azen hor fader vaste, Vorte the zonge king Henri deide atte laste, A Sein Barn abes day, * &," as it wolde be, * Endleue hundred zer of grace, & eigteti & thre. In Normandye he deyde, & thulke zer al so, Sein IO Egwine at Euesham in srine was " verst" ido. Glastingburi " was ther after & to zer ibrozt to grounde, Vorbarnd, & of king Arthure the bones uerst ifoundc. . 1 A nother Ar. 2 Desunt hwc quatuor metra mox se- quentta in Ar. ' The grace Ar. 4 These men Ar. s Hure fomen, and also pf Scotlond thane kyng they nome Ar. 6 So of thiS faire cas The kyng thenked euerydelle God and Seynt Thomas Ar. i Ac his bretherne with him also a yenst her Ar. 8 Deest Ar. 9 In the xi. c. yere of grace xxiiii. and three Ar, l° Ed. wyne Ar. "Deest Ar. 'l Ther after ii. yere was i brent to grounde, And of Arthur the kyng the bones were i foun.de Ar. The Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 479 The king, after is ' sone dcth, the croune azen nom, & in contek muche del huld the x kincdom- Vor vnkundede of is sones, muche to harm him com & sunne, vor he leuede muche in hordoro, & huld vnder the quene Rosemounde ywis, That so vair womman was, & at Godestowe ibured is. A bourgeis at Bristowe, Roberd Harding, Vor gret tresour & richesse, so wel was mid the kingj That he zef him & is eirs the noble baronie, That so riche is, of Berkele, mid al tlie seignorie. & thulke Roberd Harding arerde suththe ywis The abbeye at Bristowe, that of Seint Austin is. In the holi londe tho gret worre ther sprang Bituene Cristine & hethene, 3 & bataile suithe strong The king of Jerusalem Sir Guy was ther iuome, & the patriarc aslawe, & the Cristine ouercome. TJie hethene king Saladin, mid poer gret inou, Wende * aboute in Sirie, & Cristine vaste slou. Fo. 135. b. 1 Sone's Ar. * Kyngdom. The vnkytidhede of his sone to grete sorow him brought, And, as is wryte, spouse- breche, a yenste the lawe, he wrought, And helde vnder his wyf Rosamonde i wys, The fairest woman that me wist, that i buried is In the abbey of Nonnes, (by sides Oxenforde,) That Gpdstow cleped is, that wyde spring- eth of. worde. Boures hadde tlie Rosamonde a boute in En. Waltbam bisshopes. gelond, Which In the castelle of this kyng for Wynch. , Atte park of Fre- ner sake made man Lei. iche vnder. Atte Martelestone. Stonde. A iiur- Atte Wodestoke, geys of Bry- And other fele places. stow tho Ro bert Hardyng Ar. 3 That last somdel long Ar. * A boute Surrey, and .Cristene men a slov Ar. & 480 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. & hii that were of Jerusalem gret raunsom him zeue, In thraldom as vnder him there lo bileue. & Saladin nom the holi croys, & to hethenesse it ber, &let ' witie the sepulcre, that no Cristine ne com ther. So that Cristendom there ibroug to nagt was. & ther was thoru al Cristendom gret deol * thoru that cas. Hethaeli the patriarc fram Jerusale tho drou, & com here in to Engelond, mid deol & sorwe inou, & bisougte the king, other is sones, that som the warde toke To be king of Jerusalem, & hii it alle vorsoke. & natheles hii croicede 3 hom, thuder vor to wende, 4 Tbe king & Richard is sone, & mani on in s ech ende. & the emperour Fretheric, & Fretheric is sone al so, & king Filip of Fraunce, & mani bissop ther to. * Ac hii sende thuder muche folc, & hom sulue nolde wende. Ther with nas nozt God ipaid, other thing he gan ' hom sende, * & worre hom bituene. vor the king of Fraunce » Cudde vpe the king of Engelond gret destourbance. & Richard, the kinge's sone, that so god knizt was, Azen is fader turnde to ths king of Fraunce, alas ! 1 Kepe the sepulcre, that no Christene cam ther Ar. 1 For that cas. Ther cam tho into Engelond message of this wow. For whiche bothe grete and smale made docile i nough. The kyng and his sones were bisought, that hii the croys toke, And to be kyng of Jerusalem, but hii hit forsoke. Ac natheles Ar. J Hem Ar. 4 As the Ar. i Euery ende Ar. 6 Muche folke hii sende fhuder, but hem self nolde wende Ar. ? Hem Ar: 8 As grete werre by twene hem self, for Ar. 9 Dude vp Ar. & Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 481 & dude him omage anon, * alas ! alas ! the stounde ! & fondede mid worre to bringe is fader to grounde. The olde man in Normandie * worrede a zen hom vaste, & slou & barnde vp is fon, the wule is lif ilaste. Ac he deide in the 3 worre so:ie, in anguisse & in pine, As endleue hundred zer of grace, & eizteti & nine. The sixte day of Jul he deide, & mid gret'onour & prute At fount Ebraud he was ibured, as he lith zute. Ac Gefray, erl of Brutaine, is sone thre zer biuore Deide, that bituene Richard & * king" Jon was ibore, & 5 bileuede bibinde him 6 is sone, that het Arthure, & 7 is dozter Elianore, as ze solle her after ihure. Fo. 138. 1 Alas 1. thulke stounde ! Ar. a A yene him werred fast, Ar. ' Werre in strong an- guys and pyne. For selde worlde's welthe by werre cometh to good fyne. Ac Gef- fray, erle of Brutayne, his sone iii. yere by fore Deyde Ar. 4 Deest Ar. s By lefte Ar. 6 A sone, Ar. i A dough ter, as ye shalJe Ar. in quo Sf permulta, oratione soluta exaratarad hunc regem perti- nentia, habemus; e quibus hcec describenda esse duxi. ¦ The shap and the maners of kyng Henry a bouesaide Peres Bleys, archedekon of Bathe, 'descryueth in Epistelle, that he wrot to therchebishop Pan. normitane thus, Of Dauid kyng, in preysyng of him, Vol. II. hit is radde, that he was rede. but vnderstondeth, that my lorde the kyng is subruphus, for a colour of worshipfulle age, whiche a.litelle harenesse hathe chaunged sumwhat. his colour. Of mene stature he is. so that a mong litle sem- eth he nat muche, ne a mong long semethe he nat ouer lite. His heued is rounde, as tokne of a place of grete wyt, and of specialle heighe con- saille tresourie. The hefde is of suche quantite, that to the nekke, and to alle the bo.' dy, hit accordethe by euene proporcion. His eyen pykeled' and simple as collier's while, he is of plesede wylls, but thqargh stourbelyng of hert as sperkelyng fayre, as light. i nyng 482 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. nyng with hastenesse. his shode shamed nat- the harme of ballednesse, and whenne he is i clipped in squar the forhede, he sheweth as a lyo- nus visage, the nostrelles euen and kyndelich, accord. yng to the other membres. heghe vouted feet, legges able to ridyng, large strecch- yng oute breste, & long cham- pione armes, wliich telleth him to be strong, Hghte, and hardy. In a. too of his foot tbe naile groweth ouer to the flesshe, and in harme to the foot hngeliche ouerwexethe. His hondes, thourgh' hure gretnesse, shewethe sumwhat vn wyt and necclygence. for he vtterliche leueth the kep- yng of hem, and neuer, but whenne he bereth haukes, ne vseth he gloues. Eche day atte masses and conseilles, and other Open nedes of the regne, fro morwe t0 eve euere he stondeth a fote. And thogh that his legges in ridynges, thourgh ofte smytyng of hbrs, be gretliche i wounded, & be wanne ther of, but whanne he eteth or rrdeth, he ne ne. uere sittefhe. In oil day, and nede be, he wolle ryde. ii. or. iii. journeys, and so ofte h.vth be [/. he] disceyued and de stroyed the castes and en. gynes of his enmys. An huge Jouer of wodes is he. so that ' while he cesseth of werre, he hanteth huntyng and hauk- ynge botes withoute foldyng cappes. Homliche and shorte_ clothes vseth he. His flesshe , wolde haue charged him with fatnesse, but that the wanto- nesse of his wombe with tra- * uaile and fastyng he a daunt. eth, and in ridyng & goyfig, trauayleth myghteliche his youthe. Nat as other kynges liethe he in his paleys, but trauayllyng aboute by his pronynces aspye the doynges of alle men, and cfetoed hem that were Jngges whenne they dude wronge, & punyssh- ed hem by strengour Jugge- menf than other men: No man more wys in conseilles, ne more dredfulle in prospe. ritej ne stedfastour in adver. i sites. Wham ones he lbu. ethe, vnnethe wolde' he euere af.er hatie. Wham ones he hatethe, vnnethe he resceyu. ethe into grace. Ofte holdeth he, an honde swerdes, bowes, and huntyngere, but he be atte counseils or atte boke. f Whenne he may rest fram worlde's busynesse, priuelich he occupieth him a boute ternyng in redyng, and a mong his clerkes axeth que. stfones. For thoghe youre kyng be welle i lettred, oure kyng by feer is more i let tred. Iche for sothe in science of Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 483 of lettres knowe the konnyng of bothe, wetyng ye, that my lorde, the kyng of Scisile, alle a yer was my disciple. And thogh of yow he had the gyn. fiyng of lecture, by me nathe les cam he to the benefice of more fulle science. And as non as Iche wente oute pf the regne of Soicile, youre kyng east a way his bokes, and yaf him to. Palatin ydel- nesse. But for sothe atte oure lorde the kyng of Engelonde is eche dayes scole. Among righte welle lettred men hau- yng Jiis conuersacibn, he hathe busy discussyng of que stions. Non is more honest than oure kyng in spekyng, in etyng curtaysoure, ne iu almesses largeoure. Therfor, as holy writte seith, me may sey of him thus : " His name " is a presious oynement oute " helde, and the almesses of " him alle the cherche of ", Seyntes shalle telle." Oure kyng is pesable, and yut iri bataille glorious. Uppe alle the desires of the worlde he desireth pees, coueytyng the welthe of his Pepelle. To the pees of his pepifle bi- longeth that he dothe in cle- pyng eounseills, and in tak- yng trewes, in joyning affl- nites, and that he meketh prout men, and that he thret- neth werre, & maketh prynces adrad. he huge'yftes of mo. ney that he yeuethe, and ek - rescyuethe & gadereth, that he spendethe in was of Ci. tees, or kernelles,- strengthes and dyches, fn closyng of wilde bestes and fysshes, in paleys buldynges, alle he dothe to encresse to the Pe- ple's pees, non was nobler thanne he. His fader in his tymes enlargissed his march: es, as a noble and worthi Erie, but thes, passing his fader's Tiicchesse, in wit and strenghte of his hondes en- cressed his title and stile, by encresse of the duchie of Ac. quitayne, the duchie of Bru tayne, of the Reaumes of En gelond and Scotlond, Erlbnd and Wales. None was more benyng than he to men, that were in diseise, or in tour- ment. Non fairer speched to poure men. Non more proute to proute. And thegh, after the custumes of his regne, in elecciones of dignitees of holy churche, he haue the moste voys and power to yeue hem, euere more he kepte his hondes gilteles of alle Sy- monie. Whith these & other suche vertues of bodye and soule God clothed him. And whenne this Henry, that is called the secunde, hadde gete the regne, he -sewed the mi ners and dedes of Henry the 484 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Richard, king Henrie's sone, to Engelonde com, And, after is fader dethe, aueng the kinedom. The verthe day of Septembre, he let him crouny iwis At Westmunstre hasteliche, as the rizte crouninge is, % An ab- besse i wedded. 5 Kyng Jonan's berthe ,. M'. c. lxvio. ferst. f In the iiide. ver [of his reign] in Septembre Was bore to the kyng a sone, cle- ped Richarde, atte Oxen. forde, in his manoire, wher is now the White freres. f In the mu yer Matheu, the Erie's sone of Flaundres, as yenst the vs of Christene Peple, wedded the . abbesse of Romesey in Engelond, with whiche he hadde the Erle dom of Boloyne. 1 In the xe. yere of kyng Henry 'he dude halwe the churche of Redyng by Thomas Erche- bisshop. f In the. xiii yere quene Alionore, passyng oute of Normandie into Engelond, childed a sone atte Oxenforde, in the- kynge's maner, that was cleped Johan, in the Cristesmasse' ene. In whiche enetid appered in the West. ii. sterres of fuyry colour, on lite that other gret, and by gonne to goo to geders, and sone after departed a twoo. And hit. is ¦ to vnderstonde, that ther the kynge's maner was, hit is now the White Ireours. 1 The xvii. yere of the kyng Henry, Henry, bisshop of Wynchestre, and abbot of Glastenbury, kyng Stephne's brother, deide, whiche blynde to for his dethe lafte many preciouse orna mentes to the Churche of Seynt Swythynne's. I In ye yere of oure Lorde M1. c". xxiiiiv0. Sir John Courcy>, that me seide was kyng Jone's sone bastard, and i norsshed atte the Prioury of Stogurcy in Somersetshire in youthej was made Erie of Ulnester in Irlond, the ferst of En- glySshtong. and after him the kynrede of the Burghes, that bere the armes of goules with a white Croys. Of the sto- ryes of the lordes of this Ulster in the countre may me rede many dyuers thinges. f In the xxxiii. yere Balde. , wyne, Erehebishop of Caun. terbury, was forbede by the Pope's lettres to cesse of the buldyng of a newe chaunte. rye, atte Lambehithe, bygonne by him. Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 485 Of the erchebissop of Kanterbury, Baldewine tbat was tho, In a Sonen day as it vel, Gywes to muche wo. Vor among alle the noble, that to suiche feste drowe, Of erles & of barons, & of othere heye men inowe, And of noble presauns, that ther come also, The wrecche luther Giwes wende wel to do. & a riche presant zarkede with gret prute, & sende this noble kinge, ac hor thonc was lute. Vor the king was somdel awlated, & to gret despit it nom, That fram so vnclene thinges eni mete him com, & het it do out of is court, & tbe wrecches ssame do. Ther was mani a wilde hine, that prest was ther to, & wende in to the Gywerie, & woundede & to drowe, & robbede & barnde hous, & manie of hom slowe. Ac sone in thulke sulue zer in to this kinedom Hunger & deiinge of men, & muche wrechede com. Richard tho he was king, & zef his brother Jon The erldom of Gloucestre, & let him spousy anon Isabel, that was eir, & grete londes ther to Zef him here in Engelond, &,bizonde se al so. Ther was tho in the holi lond a strong bataile ido, Bituene the luther Saladin & Cristine men al so, A Sein Leoha~rde*9 eue. iii the zer of grace ywis Endleue hundred & ninty ydo was al this. The maister of the temple was a slawe, & Sir Willa de Fo.136. w Breus also, & Sire Ingerard de Fencs, & other Cristine ther to. Saladine's eldoste sone, that het Mirasalim, Islawe was, & is neueu, that het Goekedin. i3 & 48H Rqbert of Gloucester's Chronicle. & Migenal is Mareschal, & no noumbre nas Of Cristin folc & hethene, that there aslawe was. Me prcchede of the croyserye wide, ich vnderstonde, & the bissop Willam of Ely here in Engelonde. King Richard him zarkcde to the holi lond to wende, & bi tok the bissop of Ely this lond in ech ende To wardi, vor he trewe was. & the erchebissop al so Baldewine of Canlerburi, & mani wende ther to. As Roberd erl of Leicetre, the erl Willam de Ferers, Sir Richard de Glanuille, & mani othere heye & fers : The aumperour Frederic, & the king Philip of France, Alle hii wende to Jerusalem, to do gode chaunce. Endleue hundred zer of grace, & ninti & on, Hii wende to the holi lond, this noblemen ech on. Som of king Richarde's folc to the lond of Cypre corn, & the prince of the lond anon hom vaste nom, & in strong prison hem caste, & king Richard, as man wod, Th^he it wuste, wende thuder mid wel stourdi mod. To the hauene al bi watere he com mid poer god. The prince mid al is poer vaste azen him stod, & nolde nozt deliuery the men that were inome. The bataile was sone ido, and tbe prince ouer come. The iiobJe man king Richard sturede him ther so vaste, & the mare of hor rugge with kene suerd agaste. So that al out the lond he wan atte laste. Some he slou, & some of hom in strong prison he caste. So he dude thulke time, as ich vnderstonde, That Cipre is euereft iholde of the king of Engelonde. Gode Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 487 Gode wardeins he sette, vor to wite thut lond, & adde at is owe wille al Cipre in his bond. & the prince he nom with him, ibounde vet & honde With veteres of silner, toward the holi londe. So that to Sir Philip, king of France, hii come, &, as stalwarde noble men, the toun of Acres nome, King Richard & king Philip, vpe the hethene men there, Mani was the gode dunt that king Richard zaf er. Endleue hundred zer of grace & ninti & to King Richard this noble knizt Acres nom so, & harlede so the Sarazins, in eche side aboute, That the ssrewen ne dorste in non ende at route. So that king Philip was annyd thor alle thing, That ther nas of him word non, bote al of Richard the king, Vaste he let trossi, to France uor to drawe. Sori was the king Richard, to lese his felawe. He bed him zerne vor to a bide, thoru him al to do. Ac the other nolde vor no thing, ac to Fraunce wende so. King Richard bileuede ther, & so noblicbe he wrozte, That al thut lond ther a boute in is poer he brozte. Me nuste longe ther biuore, neuer eft in hethencsse, Of so noble knizt ne prince, ne do so muche prowesse, Me ne mai nozt al telle her, ac wo so it wole iwite, In romance ' of him imad me it may finde iwrite. Fo. 137. 1 Ejusmodi quidem narra. tionem fictam (sive Romance) satis prolixam habemus inCod. Ar. in quo tamen reliqua om nia, ad Richardi primi reg. num pertinentia, desideran. tur. Narratio autem dicta, rhythmica est .{carminibus ta. men brevioribus quam Uo- berti nostri) cur'aque nostra imprasentiarum indigna.prx- cipue quum Sfjam olim (quern. admodum bene memini) ty. pis excusa prodierit. i 4 So 488 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. So that the Deuel adde ther to gret envie, & in is'brother herte Jon brozte an tricherie. Vor he esste of heye men of this lond sikernesse dome, & homage to be king, bote is brother aze come. The bissop of Eli, that this lond adde to loke, & the triwe men of the lond vaste it vorsoke, & sede, that Arlhure of Brutaine, is eldore brother sone, Kundere eir was than he bi pur lawe & wone. The erl Jon worrede vpen hom, that azen hom were out, He wuste, that the king of France ne louede is brother nozt, Theruore he wende ouer se, & is man he bi com, To helpe him azen is brother, to winne the kinedom. So that the king & he king Richarde's lond Destruede vaste in Normandie, & here inJSngelond. N This word com to king Richard in Sirie as be was. He suor he wolde awreke be of this vii trespas. Fo. 13T. b. He beleuede is noble dede of the holi lond, alas ! & friwes nom of Saladin, vor this luther cas. Thre zer that ech thing were in peis hom bituene. & wende him toward Engelond, to awreke him of is tene- Alas ! alas! thulke stounde ! uor he dude neuer eft note In the holi lond, ne com azen ar he was issote. Sir Marchion de Mountferre, a gret lonerd, islawe was In Alimanie ther biuore, in a wonder cas. Ther uore as king Richard thoru Alimanie com, The due of Ostrich anon mid is poer him nom, & sede, that Sir Marchion aslawe was thoru is rede. To the king of Alimaine vaste he let him lede. The Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 489 The beste bodi of the world in bendes was ibrouzt. Ac the king of Fraun«e, ne the erl Jon, it ne of thozte nozt. Vor hii destruede in Engelond is lond thoru alle thing, & in Normandie also, vOr Jon wolde be king. "King Henri of Alimaine bed king Richard tho To deliueri him, zuf he wolde be is man euere mo, & bere him truasre eche zer. ac uor none thinge King Richard nolde is lond, ne him sulue in thraldo bringe. Other vore warde he bed him ek, ac he it evere vorsok. So that atte laste the Yorewarde me tok, That an hundred thousend marc, & vifti thousend ther to King Richard ssolde ziue, of prison to ben ydo. The hundred thousend marc were ipaid biuore hond, & wel narwe igadered here in Engelond. Vor broches, & ringes, & zimmes al so, & the calis of the weued me ssolde ther to. & greye monekes that newe come, & pouere tho were, Zeue al bor wolle ther to of one zere. Tho the hundred thousend were ipayd biuore hond, King Richard of the other del god ostage fond, & deliuered was of prison, & hiderward wende bliue, Endleue hundred zer of grace & ninty & fiue. Ac God sende wreche gret in thulk sulue zere Upe the due of Ostrich, uor verst vorbarnd were The hexte tounes of is lond, & suththe mani man. F0.IS8. & no man mizte wite, war of that fur bigan. That water suththe heye aros, & muche is lond asencte, & mo then ten thousend men wonderliche adrencte. The 490 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. The thridde time, tho grene corn in Somer ssolde curne, To foule wormes muchedel the eres gonne turne; The heye men suththe of is lond bigonne deye vaste, & the meste mis cas com to him sulf atte laste. Vor he vel of is palefrey, & brec is fot bi cas. So suart so eni crowe amorwe is fot was, Tho that his leches sede, ther nas red bote on, Other smite of is fot, other he was ded anon. He het it do hasteliche, ac non me ne fond Of alle is men, that wolde sette ther on hond. A kene ax him sulf he huld therto atte laste, & mid strengthe het is chamberlein ther on smite vaste. Ther on he smot thrice, the wrecche to gret pine. So that be smot of than vot mid gret wo atte fine. Ther after he adde sorwe ynou, pe mizte no man more, & atte laste deide in sorwe ynou & sore. Ac the vifti thousend marc he vorzef er Of king Richard, & is ostages deliuerede there. Tho king Richard corn to Engelond, ther was joye inou. Mid joye & procession thut folc azen him drou. He pleyede nywe king at ome, tho be hom com. . Verst the castel of Notingham vpe is brother he nom, & suththe is other londes, & deseritede him al clene, & alle that with him hulde, (hii nere nozt to bi mene) & nom wuche he mizte finde, ac bezonde se Erl Jon was sore adrad, & iie dorste come aze. Tho (he king adde al ido, & ibrozt is fon ther douiie Is Estre lie huld at Winchestere, & nobliche ber croune & Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 491 & tok the erchebissop of Canterburi this londe to wardi her, & wende to Normandie mid al is poer. Vor ther was the king of France, & dude him ssame ynou. Ac tho he wuste he was icome, to Fraunce sone he drou, Erl Jon, is brother, biseude him al so, Fo- 138, b- & bisouzte is grace of that he adde misdo. So that the king thoru gode men is grace him zef there, & in gode fourme acorded hii were. Tho the king adde Normandie in god stat ibrouzt al, Thut lond he toke to loke Willam the mareschal, (That was erl of Penbroc,) & his brother erl Jon, & wende with is poer to Aquitayne anon. There he brozte al binethe hom tbat were is fon, So that he adde al in peis is londes ech on, & nobliche wuste is londes, & nobel knizt was. Atte laste he deide in a pitous cas. Vor as he wolde at Limosin bisege the castel, & he com ther aboute, & armed nouzt uol wel, The morwe after Seinte Marie day in Leinte with a quarel lssote he was, that he ne et neuer eft a god mel. The tuelfte day he deide, of Aueril the sixte day. Bi is fader he was ibured, as is fader lay. Rizt at is fader net, in the nonrierye Of Fount Ebraud richeliche, that is in Normandie. Endleue hundred zer of grace, & ninti & nyene, Thus the noble king Richard brozte is lif to fine. Jon, king Ricbarde's brother, after is * brother dethe Ne abod nozt wel longe, '¦* seue wonke vnnethe, Brothere's Ar. * vii. wekes Ar, Ar 493 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Ar he let him crouni king, ' an holi thorsday iwis, At Westminstre in the abbeye, * as the rizte crouninge is, Of therchebissop of Kanterbury, Hubert tbat was tho. Ther after deide Sein Hue, an half zer & nanmo, That was bissop of Lincolne, and ther after the 3 werste zer The ordre bigan of frere prechors, that nas neuere er. Sein Dominic it bigan tho, in the zer of grace ywis * A thousend & tuo hundred zer, vor nammore it nis. Thulke zer the king him let vor sibrede to dele Fram is wif, the contesse of Gloiicetere, Ysabele, & spousede another Wif, Isabele het ich wene, 1 An grete erle's dozfer, & let hire crouni quene. The zonge erl of Brutaine Arthure hadde rizte, Fo. 139. To be king of Engelond, ther uore mid al is mizte, He orn 6 vpe the king Jon bizonde se vaste, & be & Sir Hue de Brun come atte laste, & Sire Geffray de Limisi, & thre hundred kniztes al so. & Elianore the olde quene bisegede in Peyto, In the kinge's 7 o '' castel, it com the kinge to ere. * He wende to is moder,. to deliuery ir there, & nom there this Arthure, & the 9 herte that mid him werr, In ,0 tuelf hundred zer of grace, & the secunde zere, 1 The Ascension day i wys, Ar. 2 Ther pro as in Ar. 3 Ferst Ar. * M1. cc. no more for sothe hit is Ar. ¦5 The Erie's doughter of Anguilleme, & lete her crony quene Ar. , 6 Upon kyng Johne's londes be yonde Ar, "' Deest Ar. in quo tamen est spatium. 8 Anon he wente thedur warde, hure to deli. uere ther Ar. 9 Hiest that wither. IOThe xii. cAr. Tho Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. ' Tho that king Arthure ne com nammore aze. Me sede * nor is eritage that the king him let sie. Vor this 3 slazt the king of France orn vpe 4 the king Jon, & is londes bizonde se s seisede anon Aquitayne & Normandie, so that * hii ne com nammore To the croune of Engelond, & that was to rewe sore. This sunne, & other mo, king Jon sore aferde, So that the abbeye of "Beulu of greye monekes hearerde, & the baronie of Farendone, & other londes zef ther to. Iu s tuelf hundred zer of grace & foure this was ido. The nexte zer ther after deide the olde quene, & Hubert the erchebissop of Canterbury, ich wene. & "Peres de la Roche was bissop of Wincetre ywis, .& the king made peni chaunge. '° in ozer was al this. Tho this Peris was ichose, he wende uor this cas To Rome, & of the pope there isacred was. Fram Rome he brozte an heste, that me here nome Petre's " peni of ech hous, that smoke out of come. Ac the king & heye men with sede it ilome, War thoru the king adde the ,z worse grace at Rome. Of the erchebissop of Kanterbury ther wex a striuing, Wether him ssolde chese, the couent other the king ? 493 ' So that this Arthur come no more a ye Ar, z For Ar. 3 Slaughter Ar. * J?is Ar. * Bynamyn < neighe echon Ar. b Hii echone no more Cain to the Croune of Enge. lond, that was Ar. i Beule in pe JVewe forest he rered Ar. 8 The xii.c. Ar. 9 Te ns de Roches bishop of Wynchestre was made Iwys Ar. . IO And in oo yere Ar. " Pense Ar. lZ Lesse Ar. The 494 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. The J sousprior of hor hobs the rnoneikes chose echon, & the king Ches the bissop of North Wich, that het Jon. To Rome hii Were bdthe isent, this louerdinges tireyey To be isacred ofthe popfe,' ac he vdrsok * hom beyfe, Ac maister Stefne of Langetone, ibore ' of Erfgeldnde* He made erchebissop, & saerede with is hond. Fo. 139. b. The couent was wel ipaid, ac the king nouzt. Vor he suor, in Engelond he ne ssolde ariui nOuzt, Ne erchebissop be bi is daye, thei he ssolde theruore deye. Tho the pope this ihiirde, he nom it 4 wel heye. He 5 sende to alle the bissopes of this lond is sonde, 6 That entred it in his name, hii dude it al this londe. The king wasj tho he hurde this, Wrotbore than he was er. The monekes of Canterbury, alle that ne void ther, Tbat mizte go, he drof out of is kinedom, & al the erchebissoptiche 7 in his hond he hom. Henri, is eldoste sone, ibore was iii this wo, As in tuelf hundred zer & 'eizte & nammo, At Winchestre «at alle halwetid, that sutbthe was vr king. The king vorbed ek in this lond al the pope's' playdirige. Of ,0 bulleu, & of other thing that he nadde poer non. The bissops " wende ek ofte to this king Jon, & kit res, that the pope ,2hom sende, him ssewede morrron, & felle adoun to is fet, I3 wepinde ech on, 'Supprioure of tlie hous Ar. sHem Ar. 5 In Ar. 4 Sum del heye Ar. s Sente Ar. 6 That they enterdite her shulde alle Engelonde. The kyng Ar. t To Ar. 8 viii. ther to, Atte Ar. 9 Aft alle hallewenday, that siippe Ar. 'o- Bulles, and of other thynges Ar. " Wente Ar. "Hem sente, they shew. ed hym man yon Ar. ** We pyng Ar. & Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 495 & * criinde pitosliche, that he ssolde * hom" Vnderstonde, & abbe reuthe of Cristendom, & of 3 Engelonde. Ac al ne migte it helpe nogt. So that atten ende 4 This bissopes to Londone echone gonne wende, A lute biuore Candelmasse, & abbodes al so, & conceil made general, this 5 entred it to do. Ac thoru 6 bisokne of the king delayed it was zute, Vorte withinne Leinte, ac it was wurth lute. Vor theking was euere the " leng the wors. & tho it ne mizte other be, - The bissopes, as he nede moste, bi gonne *¦ hom bi se, & t,he Sonnenday of the passion amansede all the, That * aviledc to holi chirche, that mid rizte was so fre. The morwe 10 as" the Monenday, " an Seinte Marie eue, The holi time that tho was, (hii nolde 1Z leng bileue) This bissopes wende to churche, as to nime ther hor leue, & efsone pitosliche this mansinge zcue, & entreditede al this lond, & Walis al so, That ll nothing of Cristendom ther inne nere ido, Vort of is luther dede the king him withdrowe. Out-of churche merrhii driae, wepifide ynowe, 14 & pitosliche hom sulue wende out atte laste, Fo# Wh & the doren after hom wepinde loke vaste, 1 Cried Ar. '* Deest Ar. 3 Alle Engelonde Ar. * Thes Ar. s Enterdite to do Ar. 6 Delay of the kyng hit was nat doo yette, Fort hit was with inne Lent, ac hit was worthe lite Ar. i Lenger Ar. 8 Hem Ar. 9 A viled holy chirche, that by righte was free Ar. '° Deest Ar. " A Ar. " No lenger Ar. '3 Nothyng but Christenyng in churche were i doo, Fort of his litherhede Ar. '+ And no seruice ther inne was doo long tyme, alas! How myght 496 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. & bi nome al Cristindom the holi time, alas ! Hou mizte be of Cristin men more wo than this was ? The king tho, as vor wraththe wod, let nime in his hond Alle the erchebissope's ' god, that he vond in 2 this lond, Maners 3 & other thing, & is" medes let mowe, & vorbed that 4 me ne ssolde non of is lond sowe. Persones thing he solde men, that mest wolde ther uore ziue, That s hii nadde ther of nout, bote vnnethe hor biliue, & hor bemes dores acelede, & al clene out hom caste. The bissopes tho in hor alf ° amansede vaste Alle that suich,7 dede dude, king & quene bothe, & hor justizes ek, tho were ther manie wrotbe. The bissop of Londone, of Eli, of Roucestre, & the bissop of Hereuorde, & the bissop of * Wurcestre, Of this mansinge were principals, & susteinede it vaste, & wende, uort it betere were, ouer se atte laste. Alle clerkcne 9 lefmen in prisounlhe kingbrouzte, Vort at is owe wille " hor maistres hom out bouzte. So that in ech half sorwe ynou ther com, 11 Ac the meste was, alas ! that ther nas no Cristendom. myght be a monge • Christene men more sorrow tKan this was ? The kyng thoo alle woode wroth let Ar. 1 Godes, Ar. » His Ar. ' And his other mevables, & his Ar, 4 No man shulde of his mede let mowe. Per sons tythynges he solde to men, Ar. s He ne lafte hem no more, but only her byleue, And her berne dores a seled, and hem alle oute caste Ar. 6 Amanased swythe faste Ar. i Dedes Ar. 8 Wynche stre^ Ar. » Lemmannes. Ar. 10 Hure lemmannes hem oute boughte Ar. " Ac most, that sacramentes fail ed, that longed to Christen dom Ar. The Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 497 The king, tho he sey the wo, that was in is londe, To the erchebissop * he sende ouer se is sonde, That he come in to this lond, ac as erchebissop nout, To * speke so, that thut lond in the betere were ibrouzt. Ac the erchebissop nolde come, vor it 3 ne ssolde amounti nozt. Ac thre bissopes .-* wende, vor to fondi is thozt, The bissop of s Wincetre, of Eli, of Londone. Ac tho hii come, hii nadde of him, bote is olde wohe, 'Glosinde wordes & false, so that hii wende aze, & ' hor weye hulde uorlore, & bileuedefbizonde se. The king of Alimayne * sende specialliche inou To king Jon, that he withdrowe him of 9 is wou, & vnderuenge the erchbissop, & holi churche fD al" ckne Lete abbe ir franchise, " & al nas wjirth a bene. The king suththe '* mildelicbe to tbe erchebissop sende, That he, « bote he verrore wolde, to Douere to him weftde, To binde him gode borewes, & sauf condut al so, To bringe him '* sulf eft azen. So that it was ido, & after Sein Michek's day the thridde day he com To Douere, & the bissop of ,s Londone with him nom, & the bissop of Eli, & the king sone wende To a maner ther beside, & to hom anon sende Fo. 140. b. 'Stephene he Ar. * Speke with him, that the londe to- better myghte be broughte, Af. 3 Nolde amounte noughte Ar. *> Ther went forth, for to founde Ar. ' Wircestre, Ar. 6 Glosynge Ar. 7 Her trauaille i holde i lore, Ar. Vol. II. 8 Alle so sende Ar. 9 His luther wough, And vnder the Ar. ,0 Deest Ar. " But alle Ar. lz Pesabliche Ar. " But he wolde, to Dover to hym wende, To fynde hym Ar. U Saf efte Ar. 's Lincolne _ Ar. K Is 498 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Is heye justice of Is lond, ' Sir G. de' Fiz peris, That zuf the erchebissop, •other eni of h{s, - Wolde 3 eni thing toward him, that hii sende him libel, & esste ek articles, that nere nozt to graunli Wel. Ac vor it nas +boteal the mase, the erchebissop sone Wende azen ouer se, as best Was to done. Tho was Richard ibore thekinge?s sone,: ich wene, ' As in the zer of grace tuelf hundred & tene, ' Thatsuththe was king of Alemayne, that atHailes ibured is1.' The ordre bigan of frere mienors thulke sulue zer ywis. Tlie king bigan tho more wo, vor he harlede vaste The Gywes ' verst of this lond, & in prison caste, Vort sixe & sixti thousend roarc hii paiden him atten ende. He bigan ek greye monekes vaste aboute ssende; ' Vor gret raunson he 'esste of hom, to helpe him spche, Vor defend! is lond, & is worre to soustene. Hii ansuerede alle at o word, that no tresOut hii nadde, That hii adde poer of, 7 bote as gode men hadde Bitake hom in warde, uor s hor soule to do In 'almcsscde & orisouns, & to soustcini pouere also,' & nouzt to sosteini worre. & tho the king hurde this; Vor IO wraththe he let in al is lond, that alle hor chartreh ywis, 1 Sir Chynnok fiz Piers, Ar. * Or Ar. ' Oughte to the kyng, to sende him a li. belle, And axed eke Ar. * But the mase, Ar. s Fast oute of this Ar. 6 Axed of hem, to helpe him to spende, For to defende his londe, Ar. .'But, as good Ar. «Her sowles Ar. 9 Almesdede o- risens Ar. «o Wrathe he hete in alle his londe, that alle hure chartres I wys, That hii hadde Ar. That Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 499 That adde of is fader, & of othere bele Bfcn al so, Of franchise; & of other thing,, al clene Were vado. & alle that wolde ' him ssame do, a day other a nizt, Robbi other quelle, that no mon ne dude b&Ba rizt. Ne that bailif, ne forester, ne soffrede hom nower come, To so we, * ne to other thing, that hear bestes nere inome. So ' hardi hit were iharled, that hii ne mizte at om abide, Bote' wende to purchasy hor mete aboute ech in is side. The erchebissope's wodes ek the king het ech on, That me + morede al chene vp, that ther ne bileuede non. That ecb tre were vp mored, that it ne spronge namore there. He het ek alle the bissopes, that bizonde se were, That ar missomer day s in to this londe come, To. Hi. Other that is bailifs hor londes hom bi nome, s And asailede al in is hond, & rentes ther to. So that al this atte daye, & 6 wel" worse was ido. Vor ther nas bissopriche non * in is lond, Bote Winchestre & North wich, that he ne huld in is hond, & Abbeyes moni on, so that Cristindom Was 8 as clanliche al uor zite in is kinedom. & ther nas 9 other red, as alle men iseye, Bote holi churche go adoun, other som god man tberuore deie. Ther on thozte tueye '" men, legates of Rome, Pandulf " & the Durannd, & to Engelonde come. * Hem Ar. * OJrer elles £o, thai ber Ar. * Harde hii Were i handeled, hii be myght at home bide, Ar. 4 He we hem doune echon, that ther lefte none. He het hek Ar. >To this londe hii come here, Vp forfeture «f Rentes add londes per to. So that Ar. 6 Deest Ar. 7]IB alle this londe, Ar. 8 Al most clene fordo in his Ar. 9 None other Ar. >° Goode men, Ar. "And Durant Ar. k 2 As 500 Robert of Gloucester^ Chronicle. As Gode'skni'ztes baldeliche, at Seir? * Geme's'tid iwis, Vor to deie vot holi churche,. other amende that was amis. * Thun wei in heruest to the king baldeliche hii nome, & to him at Northamtohe binore isicbnseil come. .-,'.., " Sir king," hiiserle, " we beth icome fram vetodoadiiwis, " Vor the pais;0f holi churche,- ?&!this lond that? thin is.o'i " Vor id wite thin ansuerej' hou tHott* it wolt bi sa. " I not nout," qiiatbfhe kirigj tf Wat s owerjdero&iidierbe-. ?¦ " Commune rizt,V; quatb FanduHy '"we ' esseth, & namore, " That thou suerie vpe the'bok, clanlicbe to restore ",7 Holi churche that thou hast ' him binomc mid wronge,; " & that tbeerchebissop in this lond in pes thoiii auonge". " Nou 9 ich olle',*? "quath the king,' "that ze min willa "R ise. " Ze mowe me rftakie suerie, wat owe wille be. " Ac inel' neuere th© erchebissop in Engelondb aiiorige, " That inelle, wan be 'com tb, late him heye an liobge. " Wolton, Sire," guath Parididf, s" eni other telle ? " "• Ich abbe '" 'ised," qua'th the king, J1 & non other segge inelle. " Thou hast nou," quath Paridulfj '* the pope13 bisout, " That he relesi the entredit, s* ac methincth it is uor nozt. 1 James Ar. * Thane 'Ar.'. 3 And to amende that is a mys, And for to a wite An 4 Wilte hit by see. I not neuer, quath Ar. i Youre de- maundes Ar. 6 Axeth, and no more. And that thow swere vpon a bokc, clenly Ar. i To holychirche Ar. 8 Hure Ar. 9 Ich wok, Ar. . <" ,0 I see.. The Erchebysshop nylle iche neuer. yeue my .pees ne gree. Wolte thow, .-.quath Pandolf, Ar. " AHe seide, Ar. '* Do not oper ich nelle Ar. 13 Besoughte, Ar. ** Ac alle is for noughte Ar. -f Ac Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 501 " Ac it is to ' holden vp, & vastore more to do. . " Nai Sire," quath the king, "•* ine wilk nozt so. " Ac for louei of mi louerd the pope, 3 i. cholle da this, " Ziue 4-tbe erchpbissopriche *, wau so is." wille is, " & ' i cholle, wan so he it zifth, vawe auonge ther to. " An maister Steuene of Langetone may so wel do " Her after, thatperaiintre ich, may him ziue zute " Another, nor the nope's loue, & that nis nozt lute. " Holi churche," quath Pandulf, " so riztnol is & wag,. " That he ne ssal no prelat sette 7 adoun, withoute apert tres pas. " Ac he ssall princes chasti, lhat ' hom doth eni wou. " Nou, Sir clerc," qnath the king," ze mowe thretin ynou. " 9Ower dede ne may be no woisj than bwer word is. " Nou, Sir killgi" quath Pandulf, " thou sedest vs ar this " The priuete of thin herte, & ich thp segge iwis " The priuete of oure, & wat oure erinde is. " The pope the amanseth, & alle that serueth the. " Is ther I0 more ?" quath the king. Pandulf sede, " ze. " The " pope of alle hor sunries as nleth alle ** the " Barons & k*hiztes^ ** the wemen & fre, ' "Clerkes & lewede, that fram thi seruise wolle '* fie, " Of sunnes, that hii abbeth ido, zuf hii wolle gode be. Fo.141. b. ' Hplde vp,' and more faster to, dp Ar. z Hit may not be sooAr. \ Iche wolle Ar. *Me the Ar. J Wham his Ar.. 6 Iche wolle, .whanne he cometh, ham vnderfonge per- to. And Ai . 7 Doune, with oute other trespas Ar. 8 Hem Ar. 9 Yourt; dede may be. rio worde, that no- worde nys Ar. IO Oughte more ? Ar. "Pope, quathe he, of synnes Ar. ,2 Thoo Ar. ¦3 pewe men and ¦ freo Ar. '* Fleo, If synne they wolle leue, and sory ther fore beo. And to follow this Ar. k3 "& 502 Robert of Gldttcestfli> G\amkvte. " & to sywi this mansinge, & th* asoylinge al soj " We assigneth the bissop of Winchestre ther- to, " & of Northwich here in Engelond, & in Scotlonde1 ther to, " Of Roucetre & of Salesbrm, * the siwinge to do. " In Walis *the thre bissopes, that beth of the londe. " Thoru out al Cristindom 4 the pope send er sonde, " To erchebissops & bissops, & s zifth ecb poer " In is bissopriche the & thine to amansi ver & ner, " & of * hor misdede to assoyli alle tho, " That ' aze vaste beth, as Gode's fo. " & siker thou be, that kinges & dukes also, " & erks & barons, & kniztes * ther to, '< Habbeth" bisouzt the pope, croiserie » bi ginne " Upe & thine, & hii wille thi lond winne, " & deliueri it vp the pope, that he is wille ssewe, " & make king ,? wan he wok, vor thou ast " frend vewe. " & we hoteth in is half, & he deth in is ende, *c Alle that Cristine beth, that hii vpe the wende, " & '* asoileth hom clene of alle hor misdede. *' Wat mizt ze l3 more ssame do me ?" the king sede. ** '* & in sothnesse we segeth the," Pandulf sede tho, " That thou ne berst aeuereft croune, ne thin eir nathe mo. - 1 Other too, Ar. * This cursyug to doy Ar. 3 iii. bis- shoppes ther buthe Ar. 4 Eke the pope sendeth his sonde, Ar. * yeueth Ar. 6 Alle hure mysdtede* Ar. 7 A yene the fast bupe, as a yenst Goddis dedly foo Ar. 8 Eke therto, Haue Ar. 9 To by gynms Up the and thyne Ar. I0 Wham hym lyste, for | Ar. " Frendes Ar. " We asoyleth Ar. *> Me worse do tho the Ar. ** And fur. thennore yet, Sir kyng, we seggeth pe also, That thow no thyne heires bereth croune neuer mo Ar "Ich Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 502 " Ich ise wel,?-' quath the king," that ze ne louieth me nouzt. " To binime me mi kinedom, me thincth, ze abbeth ithouzt. " Ac, bi him, that made al the world, zuf ich adde iwust this, " Tho ze verst com in'this lond, ich zou wolde iwis " Habbe imad heie ride al this zer longe. " As wel thou mizt segge," quath Pandulf, " that 'thou vs wost abbe an bonge. " Wan thou seistk" quath the king, V that that was mi thouzt, " So gret louerd, as thou art, I ne with segge the nouzt, " Ac ich sende to Rome, to abbe help of tbe, " & of the pope & is poer, & ze beth azen me. " Thine cause," quath Pandulf, " in rizte & nouzt in wou " We auauncieth, as in * God, & louieth the inou, " & vor thi loue hider we come, 3 Oie bet uor to lere, " That thou to God & to holi chirche * obeysant were. " & thou s seist, that thou vs wost habbe ilate an honge. " Siker we ne weneth of the non other mede auonge. " Ne in non other entente we hider ne come, " Bote that we vor holi churche thqn deth of the nome. , The king anon in 6 wraththe let prisouns vorth bringe, That uor 7 thuf the were inome, & uor other thinge, 1 Thow woldest vs haue Ar. * Good, Ar. * The bet ter the to lere, Ar. 4 More obbeysaunt Ar. s Saist, that thow woldest vs habbe lete a hang, Other mede we trowed of the forto habbe a vong. For none other entent we ta this londe come, But, if nede were, for holi chirche than deth that we nome Ar. * Wrath let prisoners ther forth brynge Ar. i Thefte were i me, and for Ar. k4 & 50$ Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. & ' demde hom biuore Pandolf, & let * bom honge heye, As 3 him vor to afere, rizt biuore 4 is eye. A clerc, that was among hom, the king het anon, That me ssolde him honge hiest of ech on. Pandulf, ' thei he wende wel, him sulf to honge sone, Ne sparede he nozt theruore, to do wat was to done. In the pope's half he sede, " ich for bede, vpe mansinge, ' : That no man ne touchi thulke clerc, ' to him to dethe bringe. He esste boc & candle, the sentence lo do bliue. The king tho him withdrou, & let him gon aliue. 7 & vewe wordes ther were mo, & tho al this was ido, Mid such loue the king & Pandulf * departede a tuo. 9 & the king bikuede amanscd, & I0 ech that mid him was. Pandulf wende to Rome, & tolde al this cas " The pope & is cardinals. In tbe zer of grace ywis '* Tuelf hundred & thretene ido was al this." The pope zut him bithozte, as he verrore nome, & alle the bissops of Engelond let someni to Rome, Fo. us. b. But tueie other thre, and abbodes al so, & grete clerkes, to loki, wat were best to do. Tbe verste day of Octobre this conseil bigan. Vor to ,3 trety of is lond, ther was mani a man. The pope & the bissopes amansede verst there Jon king of Engelond, & alle that mid him were. 1 Dampnid him Ar. 2 Hem hange Ar. i IlemAr. ,4 Hure Ar. , s Thogh he (wende liim selfe to ' be an liougcd sime, Ar. ^ He him lo deth brinir. He axed Ar. 7 A fewe Ar. » Parted Ar. 9 That the kyng by lafte Ar. •° Alle Ar. " To the Ar. " xii. c. and xxx. [/. xiii.] more ne lesse hit is, Ar, " Speke of this londe, Ar. Frara Robert of Gloucester^ Chronicle 505 Fram daye to daye hii dude the mansinge, Zuf hii mizte ther thoru ' in amendement him bringe'.' * A croiserie tho zut hii ne made vpe him non. J Vor ne adde enchesoun ibe of manslazt mani on. Ac the king of France * mid poer inou, ' Thoru leue of the pope, hiderward ' him drou. So that drede in eche half Was vpe this king Jon Of mansinge & ehlredit, & al so of is fon. Peris the wise was a man of Pountfreit ibore. Muche thing, that 7 suththe vel, he sede ofte biuore. So that he * sede, that the king ne ssolde king leng be, Then holi Thorsdai at-non, bote he wolde him bet blse, & aze God & holi churche amendi is misdede. Vor this word the king was ' wel in the more drede. At Corf he let this Peris ih strong prison bringe, 10 Vort be he wuste of this wo, Wat were the endinge. To Rome gode messagers to the pope he sende, " Vort azen holi churche is trespas '* amende. Anon after Easter tow ard Douere he drou, To '3 wite the bauene mid poer inou. & gaderede of al Engelonde the beste of ech toune, & were uorte holi Thoresday vpe Berhaumdoune, ' To Ar. a But creysorye Ar. } For hit wolde haue be cheson of deth of many- one Ar. * With grete power, Ar. *By Ar. 6 Fast drt>w Ar. 7 Suthe byfelle, Ar. •Saide, kyng John sholde kyng no lenger be, Ar. 9 Wel the more in drede Ar. ,3 Sic ¦apogr. quod sequimur, Mea. dianum. Fort he wist Ar. " For to a gene Ar. - lz Al to a mende Ar. '* Wardy Ar.- To 506 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. To kepe the king of France, vor king Jon adde drede Of mansinge, & * of the word, that Peris the wise * spde. In the monthe of Aueril is messagers cpme, & Pandulf the kgat with hom, fram the court of Rome. , Pandulf him 3 sede anon, that he amansed was This lond to lese he & is, vor 4 is vile trespas. The king waj nei for drede wod, $ vor wowe in ech ende, Laste the king of Fraunce, 6 & mansing him ssolde ssendeK & vor holi Thorsday was ney, thouztes he adde inowe> Leste the deuelen of helle al quic to helle him drowe. The king suor vpe the boc, ' & caucion vond god\ That he al clanliche to the pope's loking stod, Fo. 143. To amendi azen holi chirche al that he adde misdo, & to vnderfonge the erchebissop, & to zelde azen al so * Him, & other Bissopes, al that 9 he nom of hore, & al that eni clerc adde thoru him, IO other is, iloie, & grantede alk the. franchises, that hii adde biuore. At Douere biuore al " that folc thisoth was isuore. & ze heyemen of this lond vpe bok suore also, That, zuf he wolde aze this oth euereraor ,2 out do, To turne alle azen him, vort he to betere come. The king made ek is chart-re to the court of Rome, To bicome the Pope's man, & homage him do, & eche zer him bere rente, & is eirs al so, 1 Of other word, Ar. aHym sene Ar. * Sent worde, that Ar. 4 So vile Ar. 5 And fer Ar. 6 For cursyng shulde hym shende Ar. 7 And weddes laide gode Ar. 8 To him,, Ar... 9 We nome of heis, And alle Ar. >° Or his, i lore. He graunted Ar. "The folke Ar. '- Ought do^r*. Eche Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 507 Eche zer a thousend marc, & nouzt a veithing lasse. Half to paye at Estre, & half at ¦ Misselmasse. Sene hundre J marc to paye uor Engelond & Walis, & thre hundred marc to paye vor Irlond. Al withoute Petre's peni, so that he nom The croune of is heued, tho holi Thorsdai com, & tok 3 is Pandulf the legat, to zelde him sulue ywis To the pope Innocent al clene, & alle his, Of Seinte Peter, & of him, & of is successours of Rome, * To holde euere Engelond, & is eirs that of him come. & zuf eni king it withsede, that after him com, Anon vor thulke trespas * loze the kinedom . & thus pleide * the'' king Jon, to him & alle his, 7 Verst to lese Normandie, & suththe to paye this. Tho it was al siker inou, * that nouzt was bileued, Pandulf nom tho * croune azen, & sette vp on his heued. & pur was the pes ymad, he lokede *° arst wel rowe, More uor eye than vor loue, mani man seruetb howe. After the erchebissop " hii sende tho anon, & after the other '* bissop ek, that hii come hom ech on. ' Michelle masse Ar, * Marc ther of for the reavme of Engelond And Wales, and v.c. marc for the He of Edond^r. *Her Ar. * To holde al his kyngdome, that non hit hem by nome Ar. J Lore Ar. * Deest Ar. 7For to lese alle Normandye, and suth paye al this. To hit was Ar. 8 And nothyng was Ar. 9 Croune, & sette hit on his hefde. And thus was Ar. '° Er Ar. " He Ar. " Byssoppes, that hii come echone Ar. At 508 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. At Winchestre at Sein Swithirfe's, ' tho'' the erchebissop come, The z king was, & pitosliche azen himthun wey he nome, & rizt atte churche dore he 3 vel adoun a kne To the erchebissope's fet, as thut folc mizt ise, & sede, " leue fader, wel come mote thou be. God wot, wuch is herte was, vor he nolde him nozt vnwre. The erchebissop him assoilede, at is vet as he lay, Sd wende vp & song the masse a Seinte Margrete day. Fo. 143. b. The king offrede him a marc, * & another gywei'ther to, Ac the entredit of this lond nas nbzt tho zut vndo. Vor the pope nolde it nout vndo, ar the king zolde Al that he of s clerkes nom, wolde he so nolde, As he bi is kttres sende. & zuf eni clerc for zeue out The king of suich mis niminge, that it were'al uof nozt. So that at Sein Bartelraewe's tid the bissopescome, & the en hebissop to Westmunstre, & conseil there of nome. There hii made ech clerc segge, wat * him binome were ; & the king enquerede of is men 1 al," wat hii awei bere ? & tho hii were al at on, ' the suor is- ofli iwis, To zelde, at Sent Nicholas tid, at Redinge ech man his. 1 DSest Ar. z Kyng sobre- liche i now the way a yenst hym nome, Ar. * Felle doune a kne, And seide, fader in God, wel come mote thow'be. God wo(e, whiche his herte was, none' wist but he. The Erchebisshop" Ar. 4 And other wat therto, Ar. s Clerkes wrongefulliche hadde i holde. So that a Stynte Bartelmewe's day f'.e byssliopes alle come To Wcctmynster, and her of a grcie conseille nome Ar. MJ;i Ar. i Deest Ar- 8 He swor Ar. Ac Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 509 Ac ferlich; it was ' iholde. vor the herte ther was ibrouzt Som wat, as uor hore del, & tbe pouerore nouzt. Peris the wise, that at * Cors in prisoun tho lay, Vor the king'3 of scapede holi Thorsday, Har roles me him norti, & mid hors to drou, & suththe * anhunge him & is sone at Warham, as mid wou. In the zer, of > grace tuelf hundred, & fourtene al so, A gret. conseil at Londone of bissopes was ido, & of the legal of Rome. So that the king& he Were there so at on', as ' hii mizte bise, That hii vndude the entredit a Sein S with ine's day ther, Wodnesday ' as was tho, that adde ilast er Six zer & thre monthes. ther was joye inou. 7 Merongbellen in al the toun, & vaste the ropes drou. Tho the king hadde pays * aze the pope iwis, The baldore he was uor to » do is barons amis. As in the zer of grace tuelf hundred & fiftene Contek bi gan bi tuene hom, & nozt uor nozt ich wene. Yot hor wiues & hor dozfren *° the king ofte uor lay, &bangede men gultles vor '* wraththe al longe day, " & to drou & bikuede. the barons in o thouzt" 13 Nome hor conseil, & sede, that hii nolde it tholie nozt, Guerra Baronum. - * yolde. for tnto the hyest hit was brought, As sumwat for her del, ac pe poure rigtite nought. Parys Ar, ¦* Gorf Ar. 3 A scaped Ar. * A hange hym welle at Warham with grete woughe Ar. 5 Me myghte be see, Ar. 6 That was Ar. 7 Me range the belles alle a boute, and the ropes fast droughe Ar. 8 A ye of the Ar. 9 Do to his Ar. 10 Of the kyng for1 lay Ar. " Wrathe eche other day Ar. lz Hoc mstrum omittit Ar. ¦5 Toke her rede, that hii nolde suffre hit so nought, Ar. Ne 510 Fo.144. Robert of Gloucester'* Chronicle. Ne the luther lawes, that he huld, ac bede hittl With drawe Is luther wille;, & grarite hom the gode olde lawe That was bi Seint Edwarde's day, & siMbthe adoun ibrozt Thoru him, l & thoru othere, that were of luther th&tizt* The king * glosede her & ther, & made it som del touzt, 3 Ac, tho it com to the strerigthe, he nolde it graunti nouzt The contesse Isabel, thattherlmafesdha'k's doUzter was, To Gilebred, erl of Gloucestre, isptiiisfed was in this cas. 4 Maister Alixandrc Nequam tbah carton Was er^ & mad was of Cirencestre abbod'thuHte *zer. ' The barons orne s vpe King mid hor pberso vaste, That he 7 made of 'th£bIdelawesUs-ebartre atte laste, To holde s uor hirfr & uor is errs', ' ¦& oselede » is vaste irftUJ ¦ Ac sUththe, as vnstable man, ie withsede'efc With drou} & " wanne him much strange folc of bizondese, (& some, as God it wolde, ne come neUere aze) & largeliche ** hom zef inou of is baroneslOride, & is oasteles aboute " tok hom vaste ah hohde ' In diverse contreifes, &, thut lond to betraye, Ordeinede, that hii ssOlda alle in one daye * And other kynges, that were in luther Ar. * Closed lem thanne, and made Ar. ' Uut, whanne hit to the nede come, he wolde hemigriuute nought, Ar. * And master Alisaunder, that chanou was er, 1 maked was of Gloucet stre abbot thulke yer Ar. '¦ Sr. A. D. Ai.cc, xv. alii autcm docent, koe eontigisse A.D. m. cc.xm. Vide Lei audi CM. Vol. VI. p. 207. 6 rjpon Ae kyng with hure Ar. .7 Ma* ked to hem a chartre of the olde lawes at last, Ar. 8 Hit for Ar. 9 Hit Ar. "> Hit withsaide' Ar. '•' Gat him Ar. ". Hem Ar. 'i By toke hem in honde Ar. & Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 511 & in one time wende out, ech ih is side, & robbi so an oniwarthe eontrek aboute wide. Rizt ' also it was ido, that in one time rizt Hii smite out of hor castles iarmed wel aplizt, & robbede the "contreies al an oniwar, &3o f & tresour made 4is sone bar. & wo so nolde azen hom at bor wille fine, Hii barnde hous & other god, 5 & defoulede louerd & Bine. Some at hor horse tailk villicbe hii to .drowe, & some hii nome & tormentede in diuerse tormens inowe, *Ze that vii it is to telle, some hii kle honge Bi hor membres an hey, in pines wel stronge, Vort hii adde fin imad. some deide vaste,-'1-' & thulke in priue cbaumbres villiche hii caste. & al a zer largeliche this wrechede ilaste, & the baron was wo inou, so that atte laste" Hii wende & nome Londone. the boldore hii were tho. The king robbede bi Northe, & 7 dude Wel muche wo. So that the barons sende to* the" king Philip of France, That he-9 hom sende socour in this luther destance." & bote he wolde other do, that he sende with poer Lowis Is sone, & hii wolde make him king her. This fore warde was vaste imad, so that Lowis com, With *°poer gret inou, in to this kinedom. Lowis. 1 So hit was i doo, that alle in one nyght Ar. * Coun tre Ar. * Of orf and Ar. * Hit Ar. 5 And dude hem muche pyne. And somme atte .her horstaile* Ar. 6 Desunt hxcrex metra immediate se. quentia in Ar. 7 Dude much. elle woo Ar, 8 Deest Ar. 9 Hem sende socour in theire desturbaunce Ar. <° Grete power of myghty men, in to Ar. Th? 512 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. The barons him dude homage, &-' some mid suikedom, * So that of Roucestre the castel verst he; nom. Fo. 144. b. & worre was in to al this lond, that longe, worth in mone. , The sone was aze the fader, the fader azen the sone. The 3 Thorsdai the Witesone Wouke , to Londone Lowis com, & that folc of (he toun with gret honourhim nom. The castel he nortf of * Per ham, the Friday that is Next after the Trinite, & suththe he nom iwis ' Winchestre aboute Missomer, & suththe be nom iwis The castel of Odiliam, Sp, tho he adde ido al this, The tour he nam of Londone, & wan.al this South side, & euere ! robbed the king Jon, & tbe North contreifi wide, & dude the londe wo idou, & more bi het, He ne brouzte nozt al to ende, * ar here that lif let. At Newework he deide, a Sein Luke's day. He was 7 ihastcd, that vnnethe thre dawes sik he lay. Zuf eni man ther to 8 help, God it him jvotziufi; • Vor he adde er this loud to muche wrechede idriue. In the zer of grace he deide tuelf hundred & sixlene, & seueutene zer he was king & * fif monthes, ich wene, & fif l0 dawes, & that thouzte mani man " longe iwis. At Wircctre in the Munster vaire ibured, he is. OhituJ Hegis. 1 Sone Ar. z Tlie castelle of Rouchestre ferst of alle he nome Ar. 3 Soneday after Wytsonetyd Lowes to Lon done com, Ar. 4 Farneham, Ar. sRobbed kyng John in other countre wyde, Ar. *Kr he is Ijf lete Ar. "So hasted, Ar. 8 Halpe, Ar. 9 xv. wokes, Ich wene, Ar. ,0X. inquit scriptor prosaicus in Ar. Sic enim ille .-Thenne kyng John, with grete host I ga dered, purposed to feight with Lowes, and is fau- tours, but ju the Ray of his host Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 513 Henri was * king imad, after is fader Jon, A Sein Simonde's day & Sein Jude, at Gloucestre anon. Nye zer old he was tho, & in warde he was there. & me nolde nouzt, that is crouninge leng delaied were. Ther was * the legat of Rome, & the bissop of Winchetre : The bissop of Chestre & of Bathe, & the bissop of Wurcestre ; & the 3 erl Willam the marschal, & the erl of Ferers, & the erl of Penbroc, & the erl of4 Storgoil that was so fers. Thes crounede the zonge king there as he founde was, 5 Ac the kinge's home at Gloucestere, & so mid glad pas To the Abbeie churche hii bere him, that of Sein Peter is, & offrede 6 him as vor hor king to the heie weued iwis. The other erles & barons mid Lowis tho zut were, As hii vaste him bi hefe. ther uore hii nere nozt there. Corona- tio. host he wax seke, and lay downe, and after fewe dayes deyde atte Newerk, the iiii. kair'of Nouember, after he hadde regned xvii. yere v. monethes & x. dayes. I bu ried he was at Wirceter to fore the heighe auter, in the myddes by twene the holy bisshoppes Oswalde & Wul- stone. These kyng founded the abbey of Beaule, and the nonnerye of Godestowe for the soule of Rosomounde, that summe tyme had be his fa. der's specialle. And for pis summe trowen the . profecie of Merlyne in hym be ful- fulde, that seith thus: "To Vol. II. " virgines shall he yeue vir- £C gine. And ther of shalle he " of serue pe. fauour of the " heigh thondrer, & by twene " blessed shalle he be laide." This kyng John hadde faire Issue, as Henry, that after hym regned, and Richard erle of Cornewaille, and Isabelle Emperice, & Aleanore quene of Scotland. " Fulle long Ar. ' Thoo kyng Ar. z Guale legate Ar. 3 Erie marschalle also, and pe Erie Ferrers, Ar. 4 Strangoille Ar. s Atte Ar. 6 Him to the heighe auter as hure kyng I wys Ar. l Tho 514; Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Tho bigan ther in this lond a newe destourbande. Vor men loued bet hor kunde louerd, than Lowis of France. Thoru conseil of holi churche vndo zut hii thozte ' Ther uore warde, that hii made him, tho hii him hider brozte. * Ther uore the legat Galon, & the barons of this londe, A conseil * hii made at Martinmasse at Bristowe ic vnder^ stonde. lo. 145. /The legat there asoilede heye & lowe al so Of * homage, that hii adde s this Lowis ido. He made ek 6 seue bissops, vor nammo ther nere, & erles. & barons & kniztes suerie there Holde othes ' the zonge king, that hii him trenthe here,. & amansede alle of Engelond', that azen him were. Manie in hor bare fless "* hom late croici vaste, To libbe uor him & deie, * Lowis out to caste. Heye men of Engelond, that mid Lowis were, Vor'0 kundede, hor herte to king Henry bere. Guerra So that " anon to somere hii gonne to vrne vaste, aie. & the eue of the Trinite hii mette hom atte laste, A, Sein Dungtone's day, at Lincolne iwis, & smite there an bataile, that wel couth is. 1 The forward, that hii made with him, Ar. *Ther- for Gualo legat, and the Ar. J Maked atte Ar. 4 Her homage, Ar. s To this Ar. * vii. bisshoppes, for no mo ther tho nere, Ar. 7 To the kyng, Ar. 8Tho lete hem croyse faste, Ar. 9 And Lowes oute cast Ar. *° Kyndhede, hure hertes to kyng Henry bere Ar. " A none Somer cam they gonne a ryse fast, And the Trinite Ene they mette atte Ar. Ac Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 515 Ac so it was, that Englisse, that mid Lowis were, Toward king Henri & is muche hor herte bere. & tho it com to. the strengthe, hii fouzte feinteliche, & inome were of hor * frend, & hii zolde hom liztliche. So was the erl of Winchestre, Sir Saer de Quinci, Inome, & of Hereforde the erl Sire Henri, & Sir Roberd * le" Fiz water, & mani other al so. & mani was the godebodi, that ther was to dethe ido. Vor the zonge erl of3 Peithes thun deth there nom, That was iholde4 zong knizt the besle of Cristendom. He nas tho bote, of thretti zer, the erl marchal him slou. $ Wan tueye stronge cometh to gadere, it is somdel tou. Tho Lowis hurde telle, that is men binethe were, He wende him to Londone, & huld him vaste there, Socour fram bizonde se to a bide in thulke place. Tuelf hundred zer & seuentene this was of zer of grace. So that gret poer of France dude hom in the se. Aboute an * hundred ssip uol, ac hii ne come nozt alle aze. Vor Sir Richard 7 Fiz le rei, (the kinge's sone Jon,) Captio & Sir Huber de Boru, & othere kniztes mani on, & the * sink pors scarselicbe mid" ssipes eiztetene, & geue hom bataile in the se, » that was sone isene. Vor Sir Eustas I0 the Moine was there to dethe ido, & mani " other of France, & ther were inome al so * Frendes, I yolde alle lightlyche Ar. 2 Deest Ar. 3 Perches [sive Perth] thane ' - Ar. * Of yonge knyghtes Ar. s For hym a monges the gentiles was made dele i nowe. Tho Lowes Ar. 6 c. shippes, ac alle come neuer a fee Ar. i Fitz Reu, Ar. 8 v. portes scarcejiche _. with. Ar. 9 And that was welle i sene Ar. I0 De Moigne Ar. " Other that there were eke i nome ther to, Ar. i2 Ten 516 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Ten grete ' loudinges, &' othere mani On. So that inome, other aslawe, other z adreinct hii were ech on. t«. 145. b. To the castel of Douere me ladde 3 that were inome. Tho was the Frensse poer 4 as here ouercome. Tho thouzte Lowis, that is poer. him moste nede faile, Recessus & the Englisse preste were, s Londone vp him asaile. So that me ' spac of acord, 7 vor the baronie * Vor loue him brozte kiderward, & that was cortesie. , & the king him zef" ten thousend marC, vor is meschaunce, & he, as in gode 9 leue, wende hom to Fraunce^ Sir Richard 10 Fiz le rei, :>f wan" we speke biuore, Gentil man " was inou, thei he were a bast ibore. Vor the erle's douzter of Wareine is gode moder was, & is " fader the king Jon, & bizete him a porchas. Sire Morisse of Berkeleye wedded sutbthe *3 bicas Is dozter, & bizet on hire *4 the knizt Sir Tomas. Tho this lond, thoru Gode's grace, to god pays was ibrozt, Vor to abbe the olde lawes the heie men turnde hor thozt. Tuelf hundred in the zer of grace it was & eiztetene, That with the zonge king hii " speke, that was isene, 1 Lordes, Ar. * Dreynt were neghe echon Ar. 3 Thulke that Ar. 4 As ho seith, ouere come Ar. ~s London vp him to assaille Af. 6 Spake Ar. 7 To the Ar. 8 That hym ferst heder brought for kyng Johne's tyrauntye. And the kyng yaf Ar. 9 Loue, wente home a ye in to Fraunce Ar. >° The fitz Bay, of wham Ar. " He was i nough, thoughe he were last i bore Ar. tz Fader kyng John, that, by gat Ar. " By cas Ar. u The good knyghte Ar. 's Speke of this matere, Ich wene Ar. Vor Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 517 Vor to abbe, as we sede er, tbe gode olde lawe, The king made ' is chartre, & grantede it wel vawe, x The gode lawes of forest, & othere that wule were. The legat & the erche bissop amansede ' tho there, & alle the bissopes of this lond, alle that ther were aze. The legat, tho it was acekd, wende uorth ouer se, & Pandulf com in is stede, & fram zere to zere Me amansede * alle tboru the lond, that aze the chartre were. Tuelf hundred as in zer of grace & nintence, ich vnderstonde. The eire of s justize wende aboute in the londe. & Sir Hubert de * Boru was hext justice of al the route. 7 & there this gode lawes hii despeplede al aboute. The olde quene Ysabel, the kinge's moder Henri, Her let to the * erl of the March thulke zer spousi. & Willam Marchal deide tho, that longe worth in mone, Scjatte nywe temple was ibured at Londone. Ther after at Westmunstre, » ar the baronie vi sai, Hii" crounede the king arizt ,0 a Witesonedai. It was as in the zer of grace a tuelf hundred & " tuenti zer, & as in the verthe zer that he verst croune ber. The newe work of Westmunstre the king bigan tho anon After is crouninge, & leide the uerste ston. Sponsalio i veteris Regine, Corotia- tio Rejisi Fo. 146. 1 Her charters, Ar. * The grete Chartre & Chartre of forest these were Ar. * Lo ! tho Ar. a Alle thulke, that yenste the chartres were. xiie. in the yere Ar. s Justicerie wente thourgh oute Enge londe Ar. 6 Burghe was Justice Ar. ' And thees Hke good lawes published alle a boute Ar. 8 Erie mareschalle thulke Ar. 9 As the Ba- rones byseidon, [/. bysei] Hii Ar. "> Atte Ar. " xv. yere, Ar. lS The Inceptio Sarum. 518 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. The king wende tho to Canterbury, &the heie men al so, :¦ Transta- To ' mine vp Sein Tomas body, & z in to ssrine do, Thome. Arst he adde ileye an erthe vnssrined vifti zer. Of Engelond & of France so muche folc ther com ther, That alle * contreye aboute vnnethe auonge it mizte. Ther uore hii nome him vp 4 priuelicbe hi nizte. The nexte zer ther after, as in the zer of grace Tuelf hundred & to &. tuenti, * in theyaire place Of the noble munstre of Salisburi hii lede the uerste ston, That me not in Cristindom vairore work non. Ther was Pandulf the legat, & as hext of ech on He leide viue the verste stones, as uor the pope * thut on. The other uor vr zonge king, the thridde, as me sey, Vor the gode erl of Saksburi, 7 Willam the Longespei. The verthe uor the contesse. the uifte he leide tho Vor the bissop of Saksburi, & he lie leide nammo. The nexte zer ther * after was Richard of Clare ibore, That was erl of Gloucetre after is fader that was biuore. The zongore Willam • the" Marschal, that erl marschal was, Spousede the kinge's soster, as God zef ,0 thut cas, As in tuelf hundred zer of grace, . & foure & tuenti ther to. Suththe " Sir" Simond de Mpunfort spousede hire al so. Ortus K. Clare. * Take vp Ar. 2 In shryne hit doo, Ar. * The countre vnnethe aboute hem holde myght. And, therfore Ar. ¦i Stilliche Ar. J In a welle fayre place Oure lady myn- stre of Salesbury was found. ed for the nones. The kirj Henry and Pandolf leide the ferst stones, That mo nat in Christendome fairoure werk none, Ar. 6 The tpn Ar. 7 Sir William Lonspey Ar. 8 Afterwarde was Ar, 9 Deest Ar. io The Ar. " Deest Ar. 1 Faukes Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 519 ° Faukes.de Breute, that in Engelond z was longe Mid king Jon, & adde of him Bedeuorde auonge, He astorede the castel thulke zer wel thoru alk'thinge, & sette s ther uolk inou, to holde 4 him" aze the kinge. The king, *& heie men of the lond, mid strengthe & mid ginne & bilaye the castel longe, ar hii him mizte iwinne. Hii nome 6 him tho mid strengthe, theruore, as rizt was, Four score gode kniztes hii an henge, alas ! & Sir Fauke^s brother, Sir Willam de T Breute. In gibet hij were an honge, as to more vilte, A Seinte Marie day in heruesl, that reuthe it was to se. & so * hii mizte lerni traitour to be. Sir Faukes, thatfleu aboute, wide gan to fle. Atte laste he was ifounde iu the church? of Couentre. The churche sauede is lif, ac villiche inou He uorsok the kinge's lond, & to is owe contrei drou. f';uilt<* * Fankes Brute, Ar. 2 Was d^vellyng long Ar. 3 Ther on folke Ar. * Deest Ar. 5 With his barons, with strengthe & with gynne By- leide -4hane castelle Ar. 6 Hit atte laste by strength, as hit felle by cas, So that iiii. score knyghtes were honged for hure trespas, And. Sir Ar. 'i Bryte. On a Gebet they were an honge, ,to doelle nat lite, Ar. 8 And so they myght lerne trayteurs for to bee Ar. in quo nulla deinceps metra Roberti nostri haben- 4ur. Nee tamen est cur cen. Fo. 146. b. seas, nihil proeterea in eodem Codice de Henrico III. \legi. Permulta quippe, sicut etiam alibi, inseruit auctor prosai. cus, e quibus pauca duntaxat delibabo. nempe hac : 1 The iiii. yere [of H. third's reign] was bygunne the Newerke of Westmynster, of whiche kyng Henry in propre person putte the ferst stone of the founde- ment. 5 This yere the Cler- cus, that is to say Chanons Seculers, that dwellynd with inne the castelle at olde Saresbury, with the bishop- pe's see, were remered to the u 4 Bis- MlO. CC. XTU. 520 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Bishoppe's . toune of Newe Saresbury, and the churche i founded in a mory place, called Muryfelde, & I dowed of the pryuylege of the citee by kyng Henry, procuryng the nedus Richard Bisshope of Saresbury. 1 Frere prech- ours thenne [ ao. v°. H. III.] ferst come into Engelond, in the company of Peris de Ro ches, bysshop of Wynchestre, by nombre. xiii. f In this yere [yiii. Hen. III.] of Pope Honorye was confermed the ordre of frere menours. f In the xc. yere Ene, [I. Ele] the love of the erle of Sales bury, remeued the monkes of Chartehous, founded ferst by hex housbonde atte Hay- thrope, to Henton by sydes Bathe ; . whiche Ele also founded the hous of Nonnes at Laic ok in the xvi. yere of kyng Henry, in whiche her self was the ferst abbesse. 1 In the xxii. yere Otho legat cam into Engelonde, this was biseged in the abbey of Oseney by Scolers of Oxen ford, and they made him take the stepille. wherfor af ter felle hit to many Scolers, seme Norhampton, some the Toune of Newe Saresbury toke the studie inne. 1 This tyme [A0, xxm. H. Ill] ma ster Robert Bacon,, with ma ster Edmunde of Abyngdone, floresshed in Oxenforde, of the crafte of whiche Bakon many mervailes buth I tolde a monkes clerkes. 1 The stap of Jhesn Crisje, [in a ston imprinted, was that tyme [A°. xxxii. Hen. IIL] brought into Engelonde by a Frere of the ordre of Prechours, & putte in the hous of the Prechours of Bristow; whiche ston after by the Freres I presented to kyng Henry, he let putte hit in the abbey of Westmynster, wher inne tho the day of the writ. yng of this hit is hit is [sic] holde worshipfulle. f This yere [Ao. xxxvi. H. III.] was a gret hete and a droughthe in Engelond, that fro the ferst day of Marche a non to the Assumpcion of oure Lady non rayne felle ou erthe. H In the xlviii. yere kyng Henry and Edward his sone, with many prelates & lordes, a boute Seynt Vincente's daye wente to Parise , in Fraunce Sfc. [and the same year] kyng Henry I tourned a yene oute of Fraunce, and comyng to Oxenford, perso- nallich, be cause of holynes and pray ere, .went to Seynt Fresewithe I armed in good bileue, not dredyng the wrong opinion of hem, that seid, no kyng shulde come ther inne, with oute vengeaunce or shame Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 521 shame of the holy mayde. To wham whan Edward his sone [who had return'd ont of France before his Father] came with gret host, he caste hym to put of his Enmys; Sfc. H In the lv. yere, Obit of Rkhard kyng of Richard Romaynes the kyng of kyuge Henry's R°- brother, the iiii; maynes. 7yonas of ApriUe atte castelle of Berkhamstede wente the way of alle flesshe, whas hert was buried in the churche of Frere Menours atte Oxen- forde, his body was buried in the abbey of monekes of the ordre of Cisteaux atte Hayles, whiche he hadde founded, and atte his awne cost i maked. The same yere the citezeynes of Norwiche rise a yenste the. Priorie of monekes, so that they brent the churche cathedralle, yp whiche the kyng was a gre- ued, and, in veniaunce of the mysdoers, he sente thedur a knyghte Justice, i cleped Thomas Treuet, whiche was Justice of heire of the Croune. So that myche Peple, con- uicte of that trespasses, were drawe at hors taille, and hanged. This Treuete's sone made Cronicles, i cleped Triuete's Cronicles, of whiche many thynges of thes Cronicles [i. e. of the prose Part, for Robert of Glouce ster himself was dead before Trivet flourished] beth i drawe oute of Henry kyng of Engelond, corrupte with sekenesse, in the moneth of Nouember, a Seynt Edmunde the Erchebisshoppe's day, deyde, and on the day of Seynt Edmunde, kyng and martir, his body was buri ed atte Westmynster. This kyug as in worldeliche do yng was nat holde fulle wyse, but more deuoute to spiri- tualle thinges. Euery day commenliche he was woned to hure iii. masses by note, and at other priuee masses never the later yut wolde he » be busiliche. And so happed hit in a tyme, that Seynt Lowiz, kyng of Fraunce, spekyng with him of his do yng, a monge other thynges, seide, that nat alwey so to masses, but more busiliche to predicacions he shulde busie hym. And he curteysliche an. sweryng seyde, that him was lyuere ofte to see his frende, thenne ofte, they hit were gode thynges, hure speke of hym. This kyng was but of mene stature, his other eye lede hangyd so myche a doun, that hit heled half tho blake of 'is eye., strong of strengthe, but fallyng & vnwys in his doynges, 522 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Tho was the king him thozte quit of al is fon. Qf god stat to the lond he spec tho anon. Vor the gode olde lawes, of wan we abbeth ispeke, He confermede vaste tho, that me ne ssolde it breke. & made ther of chartres, on ich vnderstonde Of the forest, & another of franchise of the londe, & aselede is bothe, & the erchebissop there, & other bissops amansede alle that there azen were. Ijt.was tuelf hundred zer of grace, & fiue & tuenti there. Ther uore the men of this lond gret raunson hiiri liere. The viftethe peni of hor god, & blake mones iwis Vnder al to thousend marc him zeue uor al this, & the Giwes vif thousend marc, iconfermed it was vaste. & zut, as me ssal ihurre, lute wule it laste. King Lowis of Fraunce, & Willam the Longespei The eldore, deide suththe, as in o zer nay. & after king Lowis com is hob sone Lowis. Sp after him com is sone Willam, that was so wis. The gode erchebissop Steuene brozte is lif to fine As in tuelf hundred zer of grace, & tuenti & nine. & maister Richard * the grant in is stede was ido, & wende uorth to Rome, to sacri him ther to. doynges, in whiche, neuer- theles, for hadde selby and faire emits, me troweth he was the lynx al pyng thurl- yng, of whiche Merlyne me. neth of. He deide in the yer of oure Lordo M1. cclxxii. 1 Id est, magnum. El quidem Richardum Magnum nuncupa. turn fuisse contendunt pier iqiie. Verum Richardum de Wethor- shed appellat Hygden us inPo. lychronico, quo nomine etiam ven it apud recentiores. Vide Godwinum de Prw-sulibus, pag. 127, 128. The Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 523 The king wende to Brutaine mid gret ost thulke zer, Vor to winne azen thing, that is fader les er. Ac he wende hom azen in the uerste zere, & bileuede the erl marschal & the erl of Chestre there, Vor to winne is riztes. uor him sulf lute he wan. In Brutaine deide tho Gilbert the noble man Obitus GS1- berti Clare. Erl of Gloucetre, & Richard is zonge sone was tho In the kinge's warde. uor he was of eizte zer & nammo. & Sir Peris de Roches, bissop of Wincestre, The king zef the warde of him, & the erldom of Gloucestre. Richard erl of Cornwaik, tlie nexte zer' after this, As in tuelf hundred zer of grace, & on & thritti iwis, He spousede the contesse Ysabel, that the childe's moder Fo< 1#*. was. Willam the erl marschal deide thulke zer, alas ! Sc at Londone was ibured, & Richard is brother Underue».g the eritage. vor he nadde eir non other. The king him vaire vnderueiig, & the erldom of Penbroc, & al is other eritage, Wel vaire him tok. Randulf, the noble erl of Chester, deide suththe al so, obitus co- , « - mitis Ces- As in tuelf hondred zer of grace, & thretti & to. trie. Sir Hubert de Boru, erl of Kent, the noble justise, Nan-atio That as the kinge's poer hadde an alle wise, Boru- Acused was to the king of mani luther prise, So that he was in prison in the castel of the Vise, & was bitake four erles, to witie withoute faile, The erl of Wareine & Richard erl of Cornwaile, & Richard the marschal, & the erl of Chestre Jon. So that hii founde kniztes, ech of hom on, To 521 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. To witie him in prison, & zut, uor ech on, He of scapede to churche, as him thozte best won. With strengthe he was out idrawe, & sUththe to the castel Of Storgoil he was ilad, & iwust there wel. Vor he was of churche inome, tho clergie bispek it vaste. So that he was thoru the pope deliuered atte laste. ». Sejraue. Sire Steuene of Segraue was imad tho heie justise In Sire Hubcrte's stude de Boru," thut lond wel to wise. Tho sprang ther a gret contek, & strong thoru out al, Bituene vr king Henri, & Richard the marschal, & Sir Gilberd Basset, & Sir Richard Stiward ther to. Vor to uor Sir Hubert de Boru, & uor the btesop al so Of Winchestre Sir Peris de Roches, uor the king, as me sede, Dede, thoru is conseil, mani luther dede. As in tuelf hundred zer of grace & thritti & thre Aze this thre louerdinges the king gan luther to be, Destruede hor londes ouer al, & dude hom ssame inou. Ac the erl Richard the marschal soffrede euere inou, & vaire the king bisende, that be him ssolde withdrawe, Bi men of religion, & al nas wurth an hawe. Tho ther nas other red, he wende to Walis, & ber him there vaire inou, & lute dude amis. Fo. 147- b. Vor the kinge's londes ther he mizte abbe al destrud. Ac vor he dude, is felawes were wel sore amud. Ac Sir Gilebert Basset, & Sir Richard Syward, Hii destruede there vaste inou, & suththe hider ward. Tlie kinge's conseilors londes hii dcslruede mid hor tayk. Ac the bissop of Winchestre, & the edof Coruwaile, & Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 525 & nameliche the bissop's. vor Sir Richard Siward vaste Barnede is courtes ou?r al, & walles adoun caste. * So that maister Edmund of Abendone was Erchebissop of Canterbury, as God sende that cas. As tuelf hundred in zer of grace, & four & threlli al so, This holi man Seint Edmund in suich poer was ido. Tho wende Richard the marschal, that of Penbroc erl was, Into Monde to worri, in luther time, alas ! Vor, thoru treson of his owe men, to bataile he wende adui, So that the ost of his fon ouer muche he sai, & muche of is owe folc bigan vor to fle. " Sire," quoth tho tho knizt, " thou most the bi se. " Thou sucst this folc ouer muche, that aze the is, " & thin owe ouer lute, betere it is iwis, " As me thincth, turne aze, uort God sende betere iwon. " Vor vr poer is to lute aze thus manie fon. " Wat seiste," quath this gode erl, " wan Richard the marschal " Vpe is stede iarmed is, & atiled thoru out al, " & toward is fon in the feld hath is wombe iwent, u Ssold he turne bom is rugh ? he nas neuere so issent. " Vor he ne dude it neuere, ne neuere iwis ne ssal. " Fram such ssendnesse Crist ssulde Richard the Marssal. As noble bodi in he smot. he nolde longe abide. He slou to grounde her & ther, vaste in either side. More prowesse ne mizte of o bodi be, Than me mizte of Richard the marschal there ise. * Hic de prioris archiepis. copi (Richardi nempe Magni, Hve Richardi de Wethershed) obitu agidebuit. Hii 526 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Hii ne mizte him one felle, al that to him drowe, Ar hii mid somtelonie is stede vnder him slowe. & zut ne mizte hii him ouercome, ar on him smot bi cas In aboute the fondemerit,- as he vnarmed was, & so vp toward the gottes. & thus was of lif dawe Richard the marschal ibrozt, & thoru treson aslawe. Fo. 148. At Kildar he was aslawe, that in Yrlonde is, & at the frere prechors ibured, at Kilkenni iwis. Dolor regis Tho vr king Henry hurde of is deth telle, pro morte. & ofthe prowesse that he dude, ar me him mizte quelle, & he vnderstod of his wit, & of is wisdom, Him thozte it was a gret lere to al is kinedom. Vor his deth he made deol inou, & vor is soule he let do Almes dede mani on, & mani masse al so. Is brother Sir Gileberd, that eir was of the lond, He bit ok mid gode wille the eritage an hond. Captio s. Sir Steuene de See;raue, that is heye Justise was, deSegraue. ° J He let nime, & in prison do, vor he vuste of this cas, & concentede, as me sede, to the luther treson. Liberatio He let also, uor his loue, deliueri of prison incarcera- r torum. Sir Hubert de Boru, & othere, that in prison were ido. & hom, that iweiued were, is pes he zef al so. & hii a Sein Suithine's eue, of Jun the verste day, To him come at Gloucetre, as mani man isay, Vnhoscd & bare uot, & vngurt al so, Hor armes to the elbowe naked, hor heued bar ther to. Hii velle to the kinge's fet, & merci him criede vaste. The king ne mizte tho uorbere, that he ne wep atte laste, & Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 52T Petrus Doriual. Groce teste. & bigan nei vor pile is uowe vprizt foumbe. Bote as the erl of Hereforde him huld, & Sir Geffrey of Crancoumbe, The he it myzte uor deol do, he nom hom in his bond, & cusfe hom with milde herte, & zef hom al hor lond. Tho was the bissop of Winchestre, & Sir Peris Doriual, Remued, thoru Seint Edmund, out of the court al. & to late thouzte mani man, uor god wel to do. Maister Roberd Groce teste thulke zer was al so Isacred bissop of Lincolne of Seint Edmunde at Redinge. Seint Edmund tho at Canterburi spousede to vr kinge The erle's dozter of Prouence Elianore to wiue, Tuelf hundred as in zer of grace, & thretti & flue. Sir Henri of Alimaine, the erle's sone of Cornwaile, Thulke zer ibore was al so with oute faile. Sir Simond de Mounfort, of wan gret munde is, As in tuelf hundred zer of grace, & seuene & thretti ywis, Elianore, the kinge's soster, Willame's loue the marschal, Contesse of Penbroc spousede, god womanjhoru out al. 1 The erl of Gloucestre thulke zer, Richard that was so bold, Fo. 148. fe. The erk's dozter of Lincolne spousede, that het Mold. Tho com the legat Sir l Otes to Engelond fram Rome, & made & conseil at Londone, to wan the bissopes come; & suththe he wende to Oxenford, * to the abbeie of Oseneye, & there clerkes him made dim be somdel heye. As tuelf hundred in zer of grace, & eizfe & thritti Hier to, To him hii wende to Oseneie, hor nedes uor to do. ' Id est, Otho. anno cio cc xxxnx. Vide Hist. Sf Antiq. Univ. Oxon. sub So 528 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. So that on of is men, a Sein Gregorie's day, Caste broth vp a clerc, as thut folc it sai. Clerkes come thikke tho, in gret wraththe inowe, & asailede the Legat, & on of is men slowe. In to the stepel of Oseneye the legat fleu vor fere. Is men mid strokes flowe also, & of thouzte hii come there. Suththe tho it com to pes, & foli bileued was, The legat esste amendement of the vii trespas. So that vor the manslazt, & uor the other wou, The clerkes finede with him gret raunson inou, That ech clerc in the toune him zef atten ende As muche, as he in the wOuke in is commune spende. The king Sir Simond de Montfort the erldom zef & his, A Candelmasse day tho, of Leicestre iwis. In the kinge's chaumbre atte Wodestoke atte welle was A clerc founde wonderliche thulke zer bi cas. He made him as bi wit, so that it was ifounde, That it was bespeke to sie the king, wan he sei stounde. To Couentre he was isend, to drawe he was there, & a four half Engelond is quarters isend were. Ortifc Ed- The kinge's eldoste sone Sir Edward ibore was wardi. A Seint Butolfe's tid, as God zef thut cas, (Tue\f hundred as in zer of grace, & niue & thritti rizt,) That suththp vr king was, & so noble knizt. Sir Richard, erl of Cornwaile, thulke zer wende al so At Missomer to the holi lond, & mani god knizt ther to. obitui Ther after in Jeniuer, Isabel is wif, comiti&e. Contesse of Gloucestre, let at Bercamstude that lif. Ibured Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 529 Ibured heo was at Beulu, & ir herte ibured is At Teuskesburi, & ir gottes at Missendene iwis. ' Tho sprong ther gret contek bituene Henri vr king & the erchebissop Seint Edmund, & nozt uor lute thing. Vor the king tho he addedwiued, & au eir adde al so, Ho drou to other conseil, than he was iwoned to do. & of the riztes of holi churche, & of the gode olde lawe, That he adde of is chartre ymad, he him gan withdrawe. Seint Edmond pitosliche wel ofte him bisouzte, That he with drowe of is dede, & bet him bi thozte. Ac it was euer the leng the wors, so that atte laste Seint him huld stedeuast, & amansede vaste Alle that holi churche in suich vnrizt brozte, & wende uorth ouer se, vor the king him bet bithozte, & deide ar he come aze,, & ibured was ek ther, As in zer of grace tuelf hundred & fourli zer. Tho Richard erl of Cornwaile to the holi lond com, The Soudan somdel uor fere triwes with him nom. & alle prisons & Sarazins, that in hethenesse were, Inome & in prison ido, he deliuerede him there. At the torment of ' Wareine Sir Gilebert the marschal Defouled was thoru mesauntfe, & debrused al, & deide as tuelf hundred zer, and fourti & on Of grace, & tho were dede the four bretheren ech on, As the tueie Willames & Richard, & Gileberd atten ende, & God nolde non of hom eir of is bodi sende. Ac to four sostren & her eirs the eritage was tho To delede, & to gadere ne comth neuer eft mo. Fo, 149. Obitus S. Edmundi. Terra Sanrta. ObitusMare- scalli. 10. sororea. 1 Sive Ware near Hartford. Tom. I. p. 606. Vol. II Fide Dugdale's Baronage, ji Elia- 530 - Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Elianore of Brutaine deide ek thulke zer, That was Arthure' s sostey, that king Jon let sie er. ¦ obitus Suththe was Gileberd ibore, that Richarde's sone was declare. Of Clare erl of Gloucestre, as God zef thut cas, As tuelf hundred in zer of grace, & thre & fourti ther to. Tho was is fader verst of elde, & out of warde ido. Archebissop of Canterburi imad was thulke zer Boniface, & the erl of Cornwaile, of was we speke er, Weddede dame Ssenche, that vr quene soster was, & the quene soster of France, as God zef thut cas, & the erle's dozter of Prouince, & ir moder the contesse Brouzte hire hider in to this lond, & was her in gladnesse. Fouke Basset was suththe imad bissop of Londone, & Sein Richard of Chichestre, & Edmond the kinge's sone Ibore was amidde Jeneuer. & in zer of grace iwis Tuelf hundred & foure & fourti idon was al this. Fo. 149. b. Suththe deide the olde quene bizonde the se withoute faile, That vr kinge's ihoder Henri was, & the erl of Cornewaile Hir sone bigan to rere the abbeie of Hailis, As in zer of* grace tuelf hundred, & six & fourti iwis. The erle's sone of Gloucestre, Beues was suththe ibore, & newe peni chaunge imad, & the olde bileued biuore, & erthgrine strong inou aboute Leinte al so, Tuelf hundred as in zer of grace & seuene & fourti ther to. The nexte zer ther after the gode king Lowis Of France to the holi lond wende, & thoru Paris Bareuot eode, & open heued, & then holi wey bigan With procession of freres, & of mani god man. 1 L. ortus. - & Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 531 & the nexte zer suththe, as me telle can, The stronge cite of Damiet vpe Saracens he wan, As tuelf hundred in zer of grace, & fourti & nine. Thulke gode Lowis is nou Seint, & ileid in ssrine. •The erle's douzter of Gloucetre ibore was thulke zer Margrete, & dame Ssenche, of wan we speke er, The nexte zer ther after, a Seinte Steuene's nizt As tuelf hundred & fifti in zer of grace rizt, ortus Ed- An sorie adde ibore, that Edmond ihote, mitis cor- That spousede thulke Margrete suthth, as God zef that "U cas, & was erl of Cornwaik. Thulke zer al so Occisio Ther was in the holi lond strong bataile ido, speye. At Seinte Marie tid in Leinte, & the beste kniztes that ther Were Of Cristin men, alas ! aslawe were there, As Sir Willam de Longespey, & the erl of Artois al so. & the king Lowis was inome, and in prison ido, Vort be was out ibouzt mid raunson of is lond, & Damieti zolde azen in to hethene manne hond. The king zef Sir Edward is sone Gascoine suththe al so, As in tuelf hundred zer of grace & fifti & tuo. Thulke zer was thut somer so druye & so hot, Estas ca- Thut zut to this daye of none hattore me not. Sein Richard of Chichestre, & Roberd iwis Groceteste deide the nexte zer after this. Sirthe vr quene of Engelond, & ir sone Sir Edward, & the bissop Water of Wircetre, garkede hom ouerward, j-0 150 m 2 & 532 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. EiUvardus sponsat uxorem filiam regis Hispanie, & sororem. Alfonsi regis stelle. -Ca- Ricardus coronatur in Ale- nannia. & to makie mariage wende bom ouer se, & Sir Edward spousede, ar hii come aze, The kinge's soster of Spaine, Elianore iwis. As in zer of grace ido was al this Tuelf hundred & four & fifti, & there this noble king Made Sir Edward knizt tho, nobliche thoru alle thing. Crucifixio The nexte zer ther after Giwes a child in drowe pueri Lin- . ^ coinie. At, Lincolne, that het Hue, & in the rode him slowe. The erl Richard of Cornwaile suththe was imad king Of Alemayne, & ther igrouned, nobliche thoru ech thing, An holi Thorsdai in Alimaine, & made so noble teste, That of alle, that me wuste, it was the richoste & the meste, As tuelf hundred in zer of grace, & seuene & fifti rizt. Thulke zer be made Sir Henri is sone knizt. Bituene vr king & Lowelin gret worre ther was tho In Walis, & me dude in either half gret wo. & gode kniztes of Engelond, of wan was gret pitej Aslawe were ther, alas ! the eue of the Trinite. As Sir Steuene Bausein, & Sire Patric de Chaus al so. & mani other god bodi was there to dethe ido. Providen- The meste wo that here vel bi king Henrie's day iia Oxonie. ° ' •? ' Jn this lond icbolle biginne to telle, zuf ich may. He adde thre bretheren, that is moder sones were, & the king of Alimaine the verthe, that to heie hom bere, Ac Sir Willam de Valance, & Sir Eimer ther to Elitof Wincetre, & Sir Gui de Lisewi al so. Thoru hom, &' thoru the quene, was so muche Frenss folc ibrouzt, That of Englisse men mc tolde as rizt nouzt. & Occisio S. Itahscin, Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 533 & the king hom let hor wille,, that ech was as king, & nome pouere menne god, & ne paiede nothing. To eni of this bretheren zuf there pleinede eni wizt, Hii sede, " zuf we doth ou wrong, wo ssal ou do rizt ?" As wo seith, " we beth kinges, ur wille we mowe do." & manie Englisse, alas ! hulde mid hom also. So that, thoiu Gode's grace, this erles atte lasts, & the bissop of this lond, and barons bispeke it vaste, That the kunde Englisse men of londe hii woulde out caste, & thut lond bringe adoun, zuf hor poer ilaste. Ther of hii nome conseil, & to the king hii sende, To abbe pite of is lond, & suiche maners amende. So that atte laste hii brozte him tHerto, Fo. 150. b. To makie a porueance, amendement to do. Imad it was at Oxenford, thut lond uor to seyte, Tuelf hundred as in zer of grace, & fifti & eyzte, Rizt aboute Missomer, fourten nizt it laste. The erles & the barons were wel studeuaste, Vor to amende that lond, as the erl of Gloucetre Sir Richard, & Sir Simond erl of Leicetre, & Sir Jon le fiz Geffray, & other barOns inowe. So that atte laste the king her to hii drowe, To remue the Frensse men, to libbe bizonde se Bi hor londes her & ther, & ne come nozt aze. & to graunte gode lawes, & the olde chartre al so, That so ofte was igraunted er, and so ofte vndo. Herof was the chartre imad, and aceled vaste there Of the king, and of othere heye men that ther were, m 3 Tho 534 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle, Tho nome tende taperes the bissops in hor hond, & the king him sulf, & othere heye men of the lond. The bissops amansede alle that ther azen were, & euer eft vndude the lawes that iloked were there, Mid berninde taperes, & suththe atte laste The king & othere sede, amen,- & hor taperes adoun caste To confermi the mansinge, & tho thoure it stable ynow, That after ech, as in pes, toward his owe drowe, & the kinge's thre bretheren, & other Frensse there, Flowe, & thozte al to longe, that hii in this lond were. The newe "churche was of Saksburi ihalwed thulke zer (Thoru J Giles of Brute thozte, that bissop was tho there,) A Sein Missele's dai of the erchebissop Boniface that was tho. Ther was bothe king &quene, & heiemen mahi mo. The quene Ssenche deide suththe of Alemaine iwis At Bercamstede in Nouembre, & ibured was & is v In the quer of Haiks an hey in a vair place, Tuelf hundred & on & sixti as in zer of grace. Tomia- Al this time was Sir Edward bizonde se aboute, menta - Edwardi. & hauntede tornemiens with wel noble route, With Gascoine * that was his, & gode kniztes adde, As Sir Warin of Bassinbourne, that him aboute ladde, Fo. 151. & Sir Hamoiid the strange, & Sir Gemes of Audele, Sir Roger of Clifford, & othere, uort he com aze. 1 Mali at, Giles of Brute- port, that Sfc. JEgidium enim de Ei idport sine Bridlesford appel, ant alii, r ide Godicinum de Preesulibus, p. 399. s Cujus Gubernator f actus est A.-D. 1252. Vide Dr. Brady's Com plete History of England,/?. 608. The ftooert Oi Gloucester's Chronicle. 535 The quene was ek bizonde se, & the kinge's bretheren also, & euere thozte hou hii mizte the purueance vndo. Hii porchasede, that the pope asoilede iwis Of the oth, & of the mansinge, the king & alle his. Tho was it the kinge's wille, & is conseilers also, Al out, zuf hii mizte, the purueaunce vndo. It was euere the quene thozt, so muche so heo mizte thenche, Mid conseil, other mid sonde, other mid wimman wrenche. & tho Sir Edward wus iproued hardi knizt & god, Aze the porueaunce also he turnde al is mod. So that the erl of Gloucetre Richard deide tho. Obitus coinitis Tho was the baronie wel in the more wo. , Giouemiae. The king gaderede is poer, & Sir Edward al so. & the king of Alimaine his,, & mani other ther to. In this manere the barons bigonne hor vrning. A Freinss * knizt was at Gloucetre the sserreue thoru the king, Sir Maci de Basile, & constable al so. The barons it bispeke, that it nas nozt wel ido, A caze the pourueance. vor hii nolde Frenss man non. Another sserreue hii made, thorn comun conseil ech on, A knizt of the contreie, Sir Willam Traci, & of thulke poer clene pulte out Sir Maci. Ac Sir Willam Ssire huld in a Monenday. Sir Maci com iarmed, as mani man isay, With poer isend fram the Court, iarmed wel inoU. & euene as the ssire sat, to the toune's ende him drou. 1 Vide Stow's Annals, Ed. foi. p. 192. m 4 Hii 536 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Hii alizte with drawe suerd, with matis mani on, & with mani an hard stroc rumede hor wey anon, Vort hii come vp to the deis, & the sserreue vaste Bi the top hii hente anon, & to the grounde him caste, & harlede him vorth villiche with mani stroc among. In a foul plodde in the stret suththe me him slong, & orne on him mid hor hors, & defoulede him vaste. & bihinde a squier suththe villiche hii him caste, & to the castel him ladde thoru out the toun, That reuthe it was vor to se, & caste him in prison. Tho the tithinge ber of come to the boronie, Hii thozte in time amendi suich vilenne. Fo. 151. b. So that Sir Roger de Clifford, & Sir Jon Giffard nome Gret poer in somer, & to Gloucetre come. Hii sende to Sir Maci, that he thun castel zolde To hom, & to the baronie, other hii him nime wolde. Sir Maci hom sende azen, that the king him tok biuore Thun castel him to loki, mid trewe oth isuore, Ne that he nolde traitour be, ne then castel neuere zelde, Bote tbe king other is sone, the wule he him mizte welde. He adde withinne lute folk, thun castel to defende. Ar blastes sone & ginnes withoute me bende, & ssote inward vaste inou. atte laste hii sende Al the brut aske withoute, & the brugge brendc. Vor he was al of tre, & Sir Maci & his Flowe in to the tour an hey, tho hii seye this, & defendede hom vaste, the wule hit mizte iwis. Ac vor defaute'of helpe mani man issend is. With Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle: 537 With a quarel on withinne an squire ther oute slou. Sir Jon Giffard uor is deth made deol inou. & tho Sir Maci was inome, & hii withinne come, An carpenter, that hii sede that sset the ssute, hii nome, & ladde him vpe the tour an1 hei, & made him huppe to grounde. He hupte & debrusede, & deide in an stounde. And Sir Roger of Clifford tho the castel in warde hadde, And hii nome -Sir Maci, & in to ' marc him ladde. & Sir Jon Giffard nom to bim is quic eizte ech on, & al that he fond of is, & nameliche at Sserston. A Freinss bissop ther was at Hereforde tho, Sir Peris de Egeblaunche, that hii dude al so wo. Hii come vor to nime him, i armed mani on. The gode man vor drede to churche wende anon, & reuestede him by the auter, ac Sir Roger ne Sir Jon, Vor honour of holi churche, nolde withinne gon. Ac Sir Tomas Torbeuille, & other ssrewen mo, Wende vp, & with strengthe made him out go. Tho he sei, that he ne moste habbe churche peis, " Par Crist," he sede, " Sir Tomas, tu is maueis " Me int ben te ay fet," vor he adde muche god Ther biuore him ido, & he it vuele vnderstod. Hii harlede him out of churche, that lute pite adde, & is god nome vaste inou, & to Erdesleye him ladde. & him & Sir Maci ek in god warde dude there, Fo 15? In the castel of Erdesleye, uor te it betere were. 1 Sir Roger Clifford tooke i ou him, and sent Macy into the keeping of the Castle vp- | the March. Stozec. So 53& Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle.- So it ferde ouer al, ware me Frenisse fond. Me harlede hom villiche aboute in to al the lond. & the kinge's men robbede hom, that azen hom were. & the barons ek hor fon, that azen hom armes bere. Atte biginninge ther hulde with the king vewe wel. Bote Sir Roberd Walroud, & Sir Jon Mauncel. Ac suththe tho Sir Edward so wel armes ber, He drou to him mani on, that with the barons were er. The marcheis he adde sone, as Sir Roger the Mortimer, & Sir Warin of Basiugbourne, & of Clifford Sir Roger. Sir Gemes de Audele, Sir Haumond the strange al so, Sir Roger of Leibourne, & mani other ther to. Tho was the castel of Gloucetre, & the toun al so, Thoru Sir Roger of Clifford, in the kinge's hond ido. & he astorede the castel with poer inou, & to is castel of Brumesfeld Sir Jon Giffard vaste drou. & astorede him wel inou, & goinde adde is route, To driue & to gaderi thuder god of neizebores aboute. The stalwardeste men, that me fond, to him vaste he drou, & of porchas of neizebores ssipede hom wel inou. Bituene the castel of Gloucetre & Brumefeld al so Ther was ofte biker gret, & muche harm ido. Ac the constable of Gloucetre, as mid the kinge's poer, Held ofte, in the kinge's name, courtes ver & ner. So that at Quedesle, withoute the toun to mile, He let some ni an hundred, & ther he hente an gile. Vor as he huld this hundred, mid gret folk & onour, & Adam of Arderne was is chef count our, Hii Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 539 Hii clupede Sir Jon Giffard, that siwte ssolde ther to, To come, other he ssolde in the merci be ido. He com bi a sothne. vor is men inowe Come out of Brumsfeld, & iarmed to hom drowe, & asoynede hor louerd, & to grounde slowe. Glad he was that mizte fie, ar that suerd is nekk gnowe. Manie flowe to churche, & the constable vnnethe Atarnde aliue, & manie were ibrozt to dethe. This luther bailifs, that pouere men so gret wo doth ilome, Suich Giffarde's asoyne icholde hom ofte come. Wel a zer and an half thus it ferde aboute, F0_ ]52 b, That ech hei man dude is fon ssame mid is route. Atte laste, tho winter towarde ende drou, At Candelmasse ech of hom gret ost nom inou, & Sir Roger of Clifford Gloucetre wuste al so, & at ech zat of the toun god warde let do. Sir Jon Giffard com aday, & Sir Jon de Balun there. Ride vpe tueye wolpakces, chapmen as hii were, To the West zate ouer the brugge, & the porters bede To late in tueie wolmongers, hor chaffare in to lede. Biweued hii were bothe mid Welsse mantles tueie. Tho the zates were vndo, hii hupte adoun beye Of hor hors, & caste hor mantles awei anon, & tho stode hii iarmed fram heued to the ton. Tho were the porters agrise sore of thulke sizte, & caste hom the keyen vawe that hii mizte. Poer ther was inou atte brugge ende. Tho the zates were vndo, hii goune thuder wende. 540 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Sir Simonde's sone de Monfort, Sir Henri the bende, & mani god bodi ek, as God thuder sende. Tho the barons adde the toun, & the castel the king, Ther was ofte bituene hom gret bikering. 1 Sir Edward, x thwas by este tho, mid poer gret inou, Sone toward Leinte, toward the March he drou. Is wei he nom bi Oxenford, ac the borgeis anon The zates made azen him of' the toune ech on. He wende & lai withoute toun, atte kinge's halle, & weir I e vorth 3 amorwe mid is men alle. The zates, tho he was iwend, were alle vp ibrozt Sone, bote Smithe gate, ac that 4 nas vndo nouzt. The clerkes adde ther thoru muche solas ilore, To pleye toward Beumoud, anuid hii were ther uore. The bailif hii bede 5 ofte, to graunte bor solas, To pleie & vndo thut 6 zat," ac vor nozt it was. So that an vewe wilde hinen a lizt red ther of nome, & a dai after mete with axes thuder come, & that zat to hewe, & to dasse there, & suththe thoru Beumond to hare welle it bere. & suhvenite sancti vaste gonne singe, As me 7 deth wan a ded man me wole to putte bringe. Willam the Spicer, & Geffr&y of Hencsei that tho were Porlreu'en, & Nicole of Kingestone that Mas mere, 1 Vide Hist. Sf Antiq. Univ. Oxon. sub. an cidcclxiii. ubi locum'hunc de conflictu Oxo- niensi edition liabes. 'That by estellist.Oxon. 3 Atnorowe HO. <>Nai H.O. sOffe. to graunti H.O. 6 Omittit H. 0. ' Doth H. 0. Nome Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 541 Nome of this clerkes, & in prison caste, & nolde hom nouzt * deliueri, zut (he chauncekr bed vaste. The cferkes were * to wrothe, the burgeis were tho bolde, & thretnede to nime mo, & of hor wraththe 3 lute tolde. The verste Thorsdai in Lente the burgeis were wel fers, &, the wule men were atte mete, arerde tueie baners, & wende hom vorth iarmed mid al hor poer theie, To defouli alle the clerkes, ar hii iwar were. As hii come azeu Alle llalwen mid poer so strong, At Seinte Marie churche a clerc the commun belle rong. This clerkes vp 4 fram hor mete, & to Gode's grace truste, & 5 sete, that hii were issend, 6 bute hii the " bet hom wuste. Hii mette with this burgeis, & bigonue to * ssete vasfe. ' I wounded ther was mani on, ac the borgeis atte laste, 10 b. So that the clerkes adde the stretes sone " iler. The bowiares ssoppe hii breke, & the bowes nome ech on. a. Hii bigonne to fle vaste, horn thozte long er. Suththe the portereues house, hii sette a fure a non, * Deliver. H. 0. * Tho //. O. 3 Lutt H. O. 4 From II. 0. s Seit H. O. 6 Bote II. O. ¦> Bel H. O. s geke H. O. 9 And wounded i/. 0. IO Ha litter o? a, b plane indicant quo. nam ordine metra quatuor se. quentia sintlegenda, hoc nimi. rum : Hii bigonne to fle vaste, hom thozte louge er. So that the clerkes adde the stretes sone iler [/. cler.J The bowiares ssoppe hii breke, and the bowe; nome ech on. Suththe the por tereues house hii sette a fure anon, Sfc. Quum vero dictas litter as non observaret His. torice Sf Antiq. Universitatis Oxon. seu auctor, seuforsitan is, e cujusapographo exscripsit auctor, inde quidem videmus, eo plane ordine, quo Sf script a sunt, ilia in historia esse edita dictametra, nulla interim nota delitteris binis, quas diximus, adposita. " Het //. 0. Is M2 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. In the South half of the toune, & suth the the Spicerie Hii brake r fram ende to other, & dude al to robberie. Vor the a mor was vintter, hii breke the viniterie, ¦ & alle 8 othere in the toun, & that was lute maistrie. Hii caste awei the dosils, that win. orn abrod so, That il was pite gret of so much 4 harm ido. Ther uore tho the king tom, & wuste suich trespas, Alle the clerkes out of the s toun he drof vor thut cas. Ne, vort after Misselmasse, hii ne come na more there. * Telle we nou of Sir Edward, of wan we bigonne er. Sir Edward, toward Lente, toward the March gan wende. So that an Axwednesdai, al bi the Weste ende, To Gloucetre he wende, mid gret poer inou. & al ouer the brugge to the West zate he drou, & asailede then toun. ac the barons withinne Defendede hom so wel, that he ne mizte hom winne. So that of the castel withinne com a rohte Toward the zat, to helpe Sir Edward withoute. Ac Grimbaud Pauntefot azen bom sone com, & mid poer hom turnde azen, & some of hom nom. Sir Edward turnde into the med, tho he ne sei other cas, & a ssip of Teuskesburi, that the abbode's was, Fo. 153. b. Bi Seuerne wende ther, sone he it nom, & ther inne bi the water in to the castel com. Anon so he was withinne, vpe the tour au hey He arerde is baner, that me wide isey. ' From H. O. * Mer H. O, s Othre H. 0. * Horme H. O. s Tovu II. O. * Tell vuell novu H. O. Tho Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 543 Tho the baruns that isei, sori hii were ech on. In the touuhalf thun castel hii asailede anon, & hii withinne casten out mid hor ginnes vaste, So that bituene hom the biker longe ilaste. Sir John Giffard fram Brumesfeld thuder sone com, To the castel med withoute toun thun wei sone he nom. & the castel brugge out of the med he barnde fram then ende To the ' tu brugge along, vor me ne ssolde out wende. Mani was the vair biker, & the vair asaut al so, That bituene the castel & the tonn ofte was ido. Sir Edward & is poer ofte were withinne Upe the point to smiten out, bataile to biginne. Ac the bissop Water of Wurcetre ofte bitwene wende, & the abbod Reinaud of Gloucetere, as God hom grace sende, & destourbede the bataile, ac non acord ther has, Ac bikef & slazt & ssetinge bituene bom ofte was. So that Sir Edward a day & is men hom lete arme, To wende out & bataile do, al mest to grete harme. Tho seie hii out of the tour the erl Roberd of Ferers Comes de Fcrcrs Atte toune's ende c6me, with noble men & fers, As fram ward Teuskesburi, iarmed wel ech on, Hors & men al preste, bataile to do anon. Tho Sir Edward this isey, no thing nas he glad. Vor me sede, that he nas of no man so sore adrad. Un iarmed Out he wende to the barons wel stille, & anon made acord, & graunted al hor wille, & made fourme go inou, & suor is wel to holde. Tho hii adde al hor wil, the barons were wel bolder ' F. tun brugge. Nam infra, Fo. 158. tun brigge. The 544 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. The erl Roberd of Ferers, tho he thuder com, He was nei uor wraththe wod, that me eni acord nom. He smot stede with the spore, & al is compainie, & wende him vor wraththe azen, so quic so he mizte hie. Ech bar him ek amor we out of toune drou, & of the fourme that hii made wende be siker inou- Tho Sir Edward & is folc were al maistres ther, Fo. 154. Vor the burgeis of the toun lete in baruns er, He let crie into al the toun, that bourgeis, that wolde In the castel come to is peis, god pais habbe he ssolde. incarcera- Gladdore nere the burgeis neuere in hore liue, Than vor this gode word, hii hiede thuder bliue. Tho hii were alle icome, the zates me made vaste, & brouzte hom biuore Sir Edward, tho were hii sore agasle. Me acoupede hom harde i'nou, & suththe atte laste, As theucs & traitors, in strong prison me hom caste. Withoute mete & drinke there hii laie longe In sorwe & care, & lokedc wan hii were au honge. Sir Roger of Clifford the porters vaste nom, That porters were atte zate, tho Jon Giffard iu com. As ITobekin of Lodelowe, & is felawes also, & let hom vpe the west zate au honge bothe to. Euere lokede this burgeis, wan hii were vorth idriue Prestles, hom was wel wo, that hii nere issriue. Roberd of Caumpedene,- that hosebonde was on, Vor he was a lute clerc, he ssrof hom ech on. Atte laste Sir Edward of hom gret raunsoun Nom, & let hom go aliue, & destruede al then toun. Ac Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 545 Ac the fourme, that he made aze the barons biuore, He bikuede as clene, thei the oth were isuore. To Oxenford he wende vortli, as is fader was tho, & is men bi the weye dude Wel muche wo. The king sone in Leinte to Oxenforde com, Recessus F.dwardi. & is in with is Mc atte frere prechors nom. Aboute an thre wouke there he gart a bide, Vor to gaderi is ost, that isprad was wide. Suththe Seinte Fretheswithe was me nuste king non, That withinne the zates of Oxenforde dorste ride ne gon . The king was among the freres, & hii mani on Radde him wor to wenden in, & nameliche frere Jon Of Balsom, & that he mizte, thoru Gode's grace, hii sede, In with god deuocion go withoute drede. The king hadde ther to gode wille j thoru frerehe rede. & hii masson at orisons uaste uor him bede. So that vastinde a day a uote he dude this dede, & in either half, to sikeri him, freres him goune lede, & lie wende to Seinte Fretheswithe^ as no king ne com er, Fb. im. *. Suththe Seinte Fritheswithe was, vale hundred zer, & wel vaire is offringe to the hey weued ber. & suththe ofte, wan he thuder com, he offrede ther. So he bikuede in Oxenford, & is conseil nom, Vort is sone & is folc mid poer to him com; Tho is poer zare was, withinne the Passion, With his ost he wende uorth, & arerde is dragon. Is ost was gret and suithe long, he wende to Northam- tone, & with strengthe nom the toun, & somdel with treson. Vol. II. n Aboute 546 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Aboute Seint Ambrose day ido was al this, Tuelf hundred in zer of grace,, & foure & sixti iwis. Sir Simond the zonge Mountford there hii nome tho, & Sir Osebern Giffard, & othere mani mo. In strong prison Sir Simon hii dude at Windelsore, Vort the bataile of Lewes, ac suththe no leng more. Tho wende the baruns uorth, & othere mani on, Cei bu»tio.& barnde court & other, ech man vpe is fon. Sir Jon Giffard mid is route nas nozt tho the laste. Vor he barnde aboute Oxenford the Ester wouke vaste. Curt Lincolne & Berkele, & other courtes also, Were aboute in the lond tho a fure ido. The king so sone in Mai, Estward euere drou, As toward the hauenes, with gret poer inou. Sir Simond de Mountfort, & Sire Gilebard The zonge erl of Gloucetre, com euere after ward. & barons ek mani on, as Sir Jon Giffard, & mani god bodi, that ne com neuer eft azen ward. At Lewes the king bigan mid is poer a bide. The barons astunte withoute toun biside, & vaire sende in to the toun to the king hor sonde, That he ssolde, vor Gode's loue, him bet vnderstonde, & graunte hom the gode lawes, & habbe pite of is lond, & hii him wolde serue wel, to vote & to hond. The king hom sende word azen, withoute gretiiige, this, That he ne kepte no thing of hor seruise iwis, » & that out of loue & treuthe he dude hom ech on, & that he wolde hom seche out, as is pur fon. The Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 547 The barons ne couthe other red, tho hii hurde this, Bote bidde Gode's grace, & bataile abide iwis. Hii wende & auisede hom somdel vp an doun, Fo- 155- That hii mizte bewar of hor fon, & ise to toun. Some radde, that hii ssolde wende in at on hepe, To habbe inome hom vnarmed, & some abedde aslepe. The gode men sede, that hii nolde suich vikinie do non, Ac abide vort hii come iarmed out ech on. Hii houede vnder boskes, & newe kniztes made, & armede & attired hom, & hor bedes zerne bade. Sir Simond de Mountford conseilede hom vaste, Hou hii ssolde hom conteini, the wule the bataile ilaste. Tho com the ost smite out, vaste out of the Toune, Mani was the gode bodi, that ther was ibrozt ther doune. Vor the Lond reis ther biuore a gret despit wrozte To the quene at Londone, Sir Edward ther on thouzte, &, vor to awreke is moder, to hom vaste he drou, & brouzte bom to grounde, & some of hom al fleinde he slou* Tho he adde this Loundreis al ibrouzte to grounde, With gret joye he turnde azen, ac lute joye he founde. Vor the barons were abpue, and is half ouer come. The king of Akmaiae was in a windmulk inome. Vor a zong knizt him nom, knizt ymad tho rizt, Sir Jon de Befs icluped, that was suith god knizt, That muche prowesse dude a dai. & the king him zeld in doute To the erl of Gloucetre, as to tbe hexte of the route. & to the frere menors in to toun Sir Edward fleu vaste, & ther, as he nede moste, zeld him atte laste. n 2 Mani 548 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle**. Mani on stilkliche hor arines a wei caste, & chaungede hom vor berigaus, somdel hii were agaste. & mani flowe in to the water, & some toward the see, & manie passede ouer, & ne come neuere aze. Aboute a four thousend & fif hundred me sede Atte bataile were aslawe, that was a pilos dede. Sir Philip Basset, the gode knizt, worst was to ouercome. He adde mo than tuenti wounde, ar he were inome. Sir Simond de Mountfort, tho ido was al this, Vorth mid him the king huld, as in warde iwis. & the king of Alemaine, & Sir Edward al so, In the castel of Walingford in warde he let do. Fo. 155. b. & other men, that were inome, he let bringe aboute In other castels vaste inou, that ther nas no doute. Tokninge zut of more wo, that zut lo comene was, Vr Louerd sende in sizte, bi a wonder cas. Vor a sterre with a launce, that comete icluped is, Aros tho aze dai, biuore the sonne iwis, Fram Seinte Margarete tid, vort Misselmasse nei, That ech man mizte wOndri, that the sterre isei, Ther wende of him a lem, that toward the North drou, Euene as it were a launce, red & cler inou. Thulke sterre is selde iseie, bote it be to tokninp-e. & suththe ther after com muche blod ssedinge. Hii that hulde mid the king, & nere nouzt inome, Weade aboute her & ther, as hii mizte best bicome. In the castel of Bristowe hii come atte laste Wel an seuene baners, & hulde bom there vaste. & Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 549 . & Sir Warin al so Of Bassingbourne, & Sir Jon de Muchegros ther to, Sir Pain de Chaus & Sir Roberd Tipetot iwis, & other mo, & hor wiues, that ne likede nothing this. As to wite hor bodies, vort hii betere iseie. Hii hulde hom there defensabks, to libbe other to deie. So that the quene aspide, that bote feble warde it nas In the castel of Walingford, that aboute hir sone was, To Bristowe he sende word, that .the kniztes mizte wel, AVith lute strengthe, winne him out of thulke castel. So that this kniztes to rede hom nome, & mid an thre hundred hors to Walingford hii come In a Fridai iarmed, rizt as the sonne aros. The castel hii asailede, that mani man a gros. : Azen Alk Halwe churche, the verste dich hii nome, & brake the otemoste wai, & withinne come. Hii that withinne were the castel wuste vaste Mid arblast & mid other ginnes, vaste azen hom caste, & sede to hom withoute, bote hii wolde azen wenne, That hii wolde Sir Edward vawe out to hom sende Ilithered with, a mangenel, hom with hom to lede. Sir Edward vpe wai withinne com al so & sede, & bed hom wende home aze, other he was ded iwis. Fo.156. This other wende thus hom, tho hii hurde this. Tho Sir Simon de Mountfort hurde of this dede? He let the king of Alemaine & Sir Edward lede, & Sir Henri the kinge's sone of Alemaine al so, To the castel of Keningeswurthe,, in betere warde to do. x3 & 550 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. & the kinge's soster, the contasse, Sir Simonde's wif, was Ther mid hom, & wat he mizte dude hom of solas. Sir Simon de Mountfort in castles adde ido Maistres of bizonde se, & vpe is londes al so. As in the castel of Walingford, of Douere, of Windelsore, Wardeins he made of Freinsse men, that of thozte thut lond sore. The erl of Gloucetre it bispek, so that there was ariia- A parlement at Londone, to amendi suich trespas. entum. go that this tueie erles acorfjed were there, That iremewed al clene the Frensse men were. At Seint Hillari tid this parlement was. icarce- itio R. rr,nei. was tne erl of terers ibrouzt in hard cas. ; lerers. Vor he hadde after the pais robberie iwrozt. The king wolde in ech manere that he were to dethe ibrozt. Sir Simon de Mountford wisliche dude inou. Vor he wolde in either half rizt do, & no wou. In the tour of Londone in prisoun he let him bringe, Vor to saui is lif, & to paye the kinge. Tho was the erl of Gloucetre anuid uor mani dede, That he huld so prisons, al withoute is rede. Vor suich man as he was, me tolde of him to lute, & him thouzte, that ther was mid Sir Simon to gret prute. & me sede he was adrad, that me him nome also With treson, vor he was hext, & in prison him lete do. Sir Jon Giffard tho verst aze Sir Simond turnde. Vor he askede prisouns, that me mid rizte wurnde. Vor he was him sulf at Lewes sone inome bi cas. Ac Sir Willam Matrauers, a knizt that mid him was, In Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 551 In the bataile suththe inome Sir Ranaud k fiz PeriB, & Sir Akin de la Souche, that Barons were iwis. Ac he let hom suththe go, & Sir Reinaud was ther In the bataile suththe inome, iarmed as he was er. Sir Akin was ek inome in monekene wede Fo la6, b> In the priorie suththe, arst he was in drede. & vor Sir Willam Mautrauers hom let so quit gon, Sir Simond nolde nouzt deliueri hom Sir Jon. , To the forest of Dene Sir Jon wende tho, & turnde aze Sir Simond, & procurede other mo. Lewelin, prince of Walis, rObbede mid is route The erle's lond of Gloucetre in Walis aboute. Tho wende tbe erl fram Londone priueliche & stilk, As to socori is lond aze Sir Simonde's wille. In the forest of Dene to gadere sone hii come, He & Sire Jon Giffard, & stable conseil nome, To holde aze Sir Simond stabliche, hii were at on, & Boreforde & Beghwuththe the erl 'zef Sir Jon, With him to holde stabliche aze Sir Simon in ech cas. Sir Roger ek de Mortimer in is owe londe was, In the contreie of Wigemor, & wuste him vaste there, Prest, wan he seie time, baner vor to arere. Seue baners also, that aze Sir Simond were In be castel of Bristowe, hulde hom vaste there. As Sir Warin of Bassingbourne, man of gret los, & Sir Roberd Tipetot, Sir Jon de Mussegros, & Sir Pain de Chawurthe, & Sir Patric is brober, & be ober banerets, & kniztes mani ober. n4 be 552 Robert of Gloucester^ Chronicle. be king sende ofte is lettres, bat hii deliueri ssolde pe castel vp Sir Simond, & nabeles hii nolde. Atte laste Sir Edward is lettres hqm sende,, To zelde vp be castel, & bat hii banne wende, po was among hom deol inou, vor hii ne dorste leng a bidp. Hii zolde vp be castel, & wende ech in is side. A certein day hom was iset, of londe vor to fle, & Sir Roger ek de Mortimer deserited vor to be. Sir Simon de Mountfort oqt of warde nom 1 Sir Edward, him to solaci, bat to lute bone him com. He bitok him Sir Henri is sone, to be is compainoun, Wib him to wende aboute, to sywe him vp & doun. So baf aftre Estre be king & Sir Simoun Wende hom toward be Marche, to bringe her fon adoun, o. 157. & Sir Edward & Sir Henri, & Sir Urnfray de Boun, To Gloucetre hii wende, to enfermi ben toun. ber hii bigonne mid hor ost fourten nizt a bide. be erl of Gloucetre was ip be forest biside, & Sir Jon Giffard al so vpe an hei hul lai, rdiond. bat me clupeb Erdlond, bobe nizt & dai. Gret fur he made ther a nizt of wode & of sprai, & tresche ladde ber aboute, bat me wide sai, & in to Gloucetre al so, bat is fon iseie, Ware hii ssolde him finde vpe bulke hul heie. Bituene be erl of Gloucetre heie men ofte wende, & Sir Simon de Mountford, hor herte vor to amende. So that hii were acorded be tuelfte dai of Mai, bei it were lute wurb, as in a Tywesday, To Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 553 To stonde atte lqkinge of the bissop Water Of Wircetre, & al so of Sir Hue be Spencer, Of Sir WiHam de Mounchaisi, of Sir Jon le fiz Jon, Upe the lokinge of bese foure to bringe bom at on. bo wende Sir Simon bi siker, & toward the March wende, Ac vnnebe he of scapede, bat is fon him ne ssende, bat be erl of Gloucetre mid is poer him ne nom.. & nabeles, boru Gode's grace, to Hereforde he com. bere he bikuede mid is ost, betere cas to abide. be erl of Gloucetere was the wule in mani wilde side. , Wan he wende he were fer, ofte he was ner. & Sir Jon Giffard mid him, & Sir Roger de Mortimer, Uuele hii were alle thre, vor to finde ilome. & messagers bituene hom, & Sir Edward ofte come. So bat ber was bituene hom god fourme inome, Hou Sir Edward mizte best out of warde come. Sir Simond de Montfort, wis man bei he were, Het, bat me Sir Edward gret reuerence bere, Vor to pkie vp & doun, as in compainie. So bat ber was a gileyspeke, as boru God, aspie. Sir Edward bed Sir Simon, bat he him zeue, To a prikie stedes wiboute toun, leue. Leue him was igraunted, God wot to Avuch ende. So bat sir Edward wiboute toun gan wende. An stede he gan prikie wel vor be maistrie, Fo. I5T. i>. & with him adde of kniztes a vair compainie. & suththe he nom an ober, & weri hom made anon, & subbe he nom be bridde, best of ech on, As 554 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. As it was er bispeke, to wuch he ssolde truste. He prikede it verst softe, as him lute luste. bo he was a lute fram but folc, wib spore he smot to grotinde. be sides orne a blode in a lute stounde. bere as of stedes a god & quic me fond. Vorth Wende bis god knizt, bo he was out of hond. " Louerdinges," he sede, " habbeb nou god dai, " & greteb wel mi fader be king, & icholle, zuf ich mai, " & se him wel bi time, & out of warde him do. Wat halt it long tale I he of scapede so. & to be castel of Wigemor bun wei sone he nom. bere Was joye & blisse inou, bo he buder com, Mid be leuedi of be castel, dam Maud de Mortimer. Sone but word was isend to ir louerd sir Roger. To be erl ek of Gloucetre be lettres sone come. So bat priue parlement bituene hom hii nome, Hou pat hii best mizte sir Simond to grounde bringe. To be barons deserites me sende ek tibinge. So bat ech in is half gadere ost vaste, & to sir Edward come in the March atte laste. So bat sir Edward, & be erl of Gloucetre, & ober poer inou, come to Wurcetre. & fram bauene hii wende, & hor worre bigonne At Gloucetre, & bun toun vpe sir Simond wonne. An pre wouk biuore Missomer buder hii gonne wende, & asailede bun toun, al in be Norbende, At Seint Oswalde's zat, & hii wibinne vaste Defendede hom wel inou, be wule hor poer ilaste. Bi- . Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 555 Bituene Seint Oswalde's zat, & be Norb zat iwis, Is a long wai inou, as be abbode's orchard is. & wippinne pe orchard nas no folk bun toun to defende. per uore in pe asaut some wib oute wende, & breke a pece of be wai, er me were wippinne iwar. Sir Jon Giffard be verste was, bat in wende war. Tho smite hii alle in, & brozte mani on to debe. Fo. 15s. be wardeins of be castel of scapede in vnnebe, As Grimbaud Pauncefot, & is felawes ech on. be * tun brigge hii drowe vp, & the zates made anon. Sir Edward & is poer wiboute seite vaste Stronge ginnes, & ber wib to be castel caste. & be ober hom defendede, & lutel were agaste. bat aboute an bre wouke be asaut bituene hom ilaste, & euere hii wibinne abide of sir Simon socour, Vor elles hii moste nede be castel zelde & tour, & po pat hom non ne com, be castel vp hii zolde To sir Edward in a fourme, bat hii bere ne ssolde Vourti dawes azen him armes in no place. & sir Edward hom zef lif & lime, & zut more grace, Hor armes &al hor ober ping, & hor hors ech on. po turne Grimbaud Pauncefot to sir Edward anon, & was imad knizt, & armes aze sir Simond ber, Ac per nas neuer eft of him so god word as was er. bo sir Edward & be erl Gileberd ho wille hade al so, Hii wende in toward be March, more harm to do. Bruggen hii breke ouer al, hii ne bikuede ssip non Bi Weye ne bi Seuerne, bat hii ne remuede ech on ' Vide supra. Fo. 153. b. Ther 556 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Ther boute, vor sir Simond ne ssolde passe bere, Ne namelich toward Bristowe, vor ber of was hor fere. Vor Bristowe was al ih his hond, castel & be toun. Sir Simond bouzte anoper red, & dradde of tresoun. To be prince of Walis, Lewelin bat Was, He wende after more help in is harde cas, & be tok him of fot men gret poer iwis, . Ac beT of come wel vowe azen to Walis. Sir Simonde's sone de Montfort, bat sir Simond bet also, Bisegede bo an castel, as he longe adde ido, be castel of Peuneseye, & is fader bim word sende, bat he bikuede bulke sege, & toward him wende. Sir Simond be zonge bis beste vnderstod. He gaderede him of god folc vair ost & god, & ben weye fram Peuneseye toward is fader he nom. A Sein Kenelines eue to Winchestre he coin. fo. 158. b. put folc pat was in pe toun pe zates made vaste, & wuste be toun azen him. be biker longe ilaste. So pat raid strengbe sir Simon pen toun nom, & robbede & slou vaste, bo he wibinne com. Alle be Giwes of be toun he let sk ech on, bat me in eni stede fond, he ne leuede aliue non. Ac after bulke time, of wat him was to done, Lute god cas bim biuel, as me. ssal ihure sone. Fram thenne he wende to Oxenford. bre dawes he was here. Vairorc folc ne raizt be, ban wib him was pere. pe Giwes he let seche, uor to quelle ech on. Ac me ne mizte vor no ping in pe toune finde on. Fram Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 557 Fram panene to Keningwurpe wip is ost he wende. & pere, as it fel, alas ! his heie hert him ssende. Vor so muche he tolde of him sulf, & of is grete mizte, bat him ne deinede riozt to ligge in pe castel by nizte. Sir Edward & is ost at Wircetre bo were. Hii adde gode aspies, hou hii hOm bo bere. So bat sir Edward & pe erl of Gloucetre al so, & sir Roger de Mortimer, & mani god knizt per to, In a Lammasse nizt, Safer nizt bat was, Out of Wurcetre he wende mid wel god pas. To Keningwurbe hii come in be dawningc. Hii brozte sir Simon & is men an feble tipinge. In hor bed hii founde hom in toune bo Iiii corner Of softeawakunge hii toke lute gome. Vor to wel clobi hom hii ne zeue hom no tome. Manie hii slowe of hor fon, & heie men some hii nome. As sir Roberd erl of Oxenford, & sir William ber to De MountchalsL. & sir Adam de Neumarch al so, & sir Water de Coteuile, & ober mani on. Ac sir Simond him sulf, among alle is fon, In to be castel of scapede an naked man vnnebe. Ac mani on per was inome, & mani ibrozt to depe. & pus sir Simond be zonge was verst to grounde ibronzt. Ac nabeles he ne ks bo al is poer nouzt, Ac gret ost huld inou, & zarkede in ech ende Him & al is poer a zen is fader to wende. bo was sir Simond is fader at Hereforde iwis Mid mani god man of Engelond, & al so of Walis. Fo. 159. He 558 Robert of Gloucester^ Chronicle. He wende him out of Hereford mid vair ost inou, & toward Keningwurbe azen is sone he drou. & was hor beure porpos, to biclosi hor fon, As wo seib, in eiber half, & tossende hom ech on. So bat sir Simon be olde com, be Monendai iwis, To a toun biside Wircetre, bat Kemeseie ihote is. be Tiwesday to Euesham he wende be morweninge, & bere be let him & is folc prestes massen singe, & bozte to wende Norpward, is sone vor to mete. Ac pe king nolde a vot, bote he dined ober ete. & sir Simon be zonge & is ost at Alcestre were, & nolde banne wende a vot, ar hii dinede bere. pulke to diucrs deluol were, alas ! Vor mani was pe gode bodi, bat per pom islawe was. Sir Edward & is poer sone come po ride To pe Norp half of be toun, bataile uor to abide. co sir Simon it iwuste, & hii bat wib him were, Some hii lete hom armi, & hor baners arere. pe bissop Water of Wurcetre asoikd hom alle bere, & prechede hom, bat hii adde of deb be lasse fere. pen wei e,uenc to hor fon a Gode's half hii nome, & wende, bat sir Simon be zonge azen hom come. Sir Edwarde's ost, & obere al so nei, He avisede be ost suipe wel, &, poru Gode's grace, Hehopede winne a day be maistrie of be place. bo sei he per biside, as he bih tilde aboute, be erle's baner of Gloucetre, & him mid al is route, As him vor to close, in be ober half ywis. ** Onz, he sede, " redi folk & wel iwar bis is, «& Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 559 " & more conne of bataile, pan hii coupe biuore. w Vr soules," he sede, " abbe God, vor vr bodies beb hore. " Sir Henri," he sede to is sone, " bis hap imad bi prute. " Were pi brober icome, hope we mizte zute. Hii bitoke lif & soule to Gode's grace ech on, & in to bataile smite vaste among hor fon. &, as-gode kniztes, to grounde slowe anon, bat hor fon flowe sone, picke mani on. Sir Warin of Blasingbourne, bo he bis isei, Fa t59 b Biuore he gan prikie, & to grede an hei, " Azen, traitors, azen, & habbeb in ower bozt, " How villiche at Lewes ze were to grounde ibrozt. " Turneb azen, & bencheb, pat put power al oure is, " & we ssolle, as vor nozt, ouer come vr fon iwis. po was pe bataile strong in eib side, alas ! Ac atten ende was binepe bulke, bat feblore was. & sir Simond was aslawe, & is folk al to grounde. More murbru are nas in so lute stounde. Vor bere was werst Simond de Mountfort aslawe, alas ! & sir Henri is sone, pat so gentil knizt was, & sir Hue be Despencer, be noble justise, & sir Peris de Mountfort, pat stronge were and wise. Sir Willam de Verous, & sir Rauf Basset al so. Sir Jon de Sein Jon, sir Jon Diue per to. Sir Willam Trossel, sir Gileberd of Eisnesfelde, & mani god bodi were aslawe pere in bulke felde. & among alle obere mest reube it was ido, pat sir Simon pe olde man demembred-was so. Vor 560 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Vor sir Willam Maukauers (bonk nabbe he non) Carf him of fet & honde, & is limes mani on. & bat mest pite was, hii ne bikuede nouzt bis, bat is priue membres hii ne corue of iwis. & is heued hii smiten of, & to Wigemor it sende To dam Maud be Mortimer, bat wel foule it ssende. & of al bat me him bilimede, hii ne bledde nozt, me sede, & be harde here was is lich the nexte wede. ' Suich was pe morbre of Einesham (uor bataile non it nas) & per wib Jesu Crist wel vuele ipaied was. As he ssewede bitokninge grisfiche & gode, As it vel of him sulue, bo he deide on be rode, pat boru al pe middelerd derk hede per was inou. Also pe wule pe gode men af Euesham me slou, As in the Norp West a derk weder per aros, Sodeintiche suart inou, that mani man agros, &ouer casle it pozte al but lond, bat me mizte vnnebe ise. Grisloker weder pan it was ne mizte an erpe be. Fo. 160. An vewe dropes of reine per velle grete inou. bis tokiiinge vel in bis lond, bo me bis men slou, Vor bretti mile banne. bis isei Roberd, pat verst pis boc made, & was wel sore aferd. Louerdinges per were inome at Euesham mani on. As sir Vnfrai de Boun, Sir Jon le fiz Jon, & Simonde's sone de Mountfort sir Gwy. Sir Baudewine de Wake, Sir Jon de Vescy. Sir Henry de Hastinges, & sir Nicole iwis De Segraue was bere inome, & al so sir Peris, Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 561 * & sir Roberd, bat sir Peris de Mountfort soens were; puse, & wel mo, were inome in bulke morbre here. Ac be Welsse fot men, bat ber were mani on, Ac be biginninge of be bataile bigonne to fle ech on, & com boru Teuskesburi, & bere men of be toune Slowe hom al to grounde, bat bere hii kie per doune So bicke bistrete, bat reupe it was to se, & grace nadde non of hom, to fizte ne to fle. bo pe bataile was ido, & be gode men aslawe were, Sir Simond pe zonge com to mete is fader pere. He mizte po at is diner abbe bileued al so wel, As me seip, " wan ich am ded, make me a caudel. & do me tolde him bi be wei, wuche be ende was ber, He turnde azen to Keningwurbe, wel longe him bouzte er. He mizte segge, wan he com, " lute ich abbe iwonne, " Ich mai honge vp min ax, febliche ic abbe agonne, be king of Alemaine, bat was is moder brober, & Sir Reinaud le fiz Peris, & ek mani an ober, bat in is prison were at Keningwurbe bo, bo he ne sei ober red, he let hom quit go. be sixte day of Septembre, bat po was Sonenday, He let hom go a Gode's half, bo he ober ne say. be king pozte pe Loundreis bringe al to nouzte, & hii ofte pitosliche is grace bisouztc, So bat at Misselmasse an fourti of hom come To him to Windelsore, & to is grace hom nome, As vor al be toune, be beste ichose ech on. be king hom let bringe in stronge prison anon. Vol. II. o Hii 562 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Fo.,160. b. Hii zolde be king vp bo be keien of be toune. So bat be toun was po al clene ibrozt per doune. At pe feste of Seint Edward pe king huld do anon At Londone a parlement, & heie men, mani on. bere hii lokede do pat alle pat armes bere Azen be king in be worre, ober azen him were At Norhamtone, at Lewes, ober at Euesham, Barun, erl, ober knizt, burgeis, ober fre man, pe burgeis of Norhamtone, & of Londone per to, Were alle deserited, & hor eirs al so. Ac manie of be iieie men ne grauntede it nozt al. As be king of Alemaine, ne be erl marschal, Ne sir Philip Basset, ne ober mani on. Ne grauntede nozt be lokinge, ac wibsede it ech on. be contesse of Leicestre, bat sir Simonde's wif was De Mountfort, & be kinge's soster, bo heo ne sei ober cas, pe castel of ' Pennepeie heo zolde vp be kinge, At Sein Simonde's tid & Sein Jude, as wiboute striuinge, bat heo hadde iholde er subbe Estre biuore. & bo heo hadde al clene ir joye.al vorlore, Me flemde ir out of Engelond, wiboute aze coming. Alas ! ir tueie brebercn, pat eiber of bom was king, & nadde bote ir one soster, & hire wolde so fleme ! Alas! were was loue bo, suiche domes to deme ? ro com fram bizonde se to Alle Halwe tid anon be quene wib a legat, bat het sir Otebon, Wib be pope's poer, to do be kinge's wille. be legat, bo he was icome, lute wule was stilk. * Pro, Penneseie. Of Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 563 Of be clergie at Londone, at Seint Andrewe's feste A conseil he made, & ssewede bere be pope's heste^ Wuch poer he him zef, & clerkes anon, bat hulde wib sir Simon, he greuede mani on. be bissop of Londone, & the bissop of Wircetre, & be bissop of Lincolne, & the bissop of Cicetre, Wiboute eni grace, he suspendede ech one. bo per nas ober red, hii wende uorp to Rome. pe bissop deide of Wincestre, ar hii azen come. be obere were asoikd, elles it were wou, Fo. jgj. & come azen to Engelond, wib joye & blisse inou. Sir Simond be zonge huld al awey vaste be castel of Kenigwurpe, pe wule is poer ilaste. pe kniztes were deserites in pe lond aboute wide. Sir Simond bim bibozte, it nas nouzt god abide In be caste to longe, laste he were bi set. Him pozte pe wide contreie wolde him liki bet. To pe deserites to an yk he wende, pat me clupep Exholm, be bet him to defende. Sir Edward wib is poer afterward him drou, & to pais vor to come bisende him vaire inou, As vor kundede of blode, & ostage vor him tok. Sir Simond him ikiiede, & is felawes uorsok. So pat atte laste to Londone hii come. be king & is kniztes conseil of him nome. So bat him was iloked, out of londe wende, & be king of is tresorie eche zer him sende A certein sume of sterlings, to is liue's ende,' be wule he were aze be king of is dedes hende. o2 be 56* Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. be wule hii speke her of, io conferral bis cas, Of is frend priueliche iwarned he was, pat it was al gile, & bat hii him pozte caste In strong prison to bileue, be wule is lif ilaste. So bat, vor drede her of, he wende him ouer se, & stilleliche stel awei, & ne com neuere aze. Sir Roberd erl of Ferers, bat nas nozt be zut itake, & sir Henri de Hastinges, & sir Baudewine de Wake. & Sir Jon Deruik, & obere hor red nome, & to be toun of Chaslelfeld in Dorbi ssire come. Sir Jon erl of Wareine, & sir Henri of Alemaine, & sir Warin of Basingbourne, wende mid al bor maine, & ober knizt mani on, toward Chasterfelde, & a Witsonen ene hii come ber in be felde. Sir Baudewine de Wake & Sir Henri de Hastinge, & opere were in bor dedut, iwend an hontinge. •fcSir Gregoriof Cakkwelle, Sir Jon of Clintone, Sir Richard de Mandeuile, bat longe worb in mone, •{« •J« Sir Richard of Caldewelle, so bat ber were Fo. 161. b. To & tuenti kniztes vnder a spere; & me bontede after hom in bulke manere nouzt, & hii al an oniwar were to ssame ibrozt. be erl of Ferers was ilate blod rizt bo, Captio & be was al so sik mid goute & ober wo. comitis de . > * Feren. po sir Jon Deiuile wuste in Chaster felde, bat is fon were icome wiboute in pe felde, Wip a lute compainie he smot out of toune, Wib a lance he brozte a knizt at pe verst saut per doune. Zut Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 565 Zut he percede be ost, & woundede mani on, & a liue & vn nome of scapede among ech on. no hii come wib inne toun, muche folc hii slowe. Sone to be sike erl of Ferers hii drowe, & nome him as ilatc blod he was, & fbl of goute, & to be tour of Londone hii ladde him wib gret route. pere he la'i in prison, as he adde ido er. he king vor him & vor his he grauntede is lond per, Vort he him mizte ober his of sterlinges paie To & fifti bousund pound, al in one daye. & so he was deliured wiboute lond & fe. God wite in o dai wan itaquited be. Sir Henri de Hastinges to Keningwurbe him drou, & vond per vair compainie of god folc inou. Sir Jon de Eiuile, & mani ober knizt, To wodes & to feldes hulde hom day & nizt. Of castel of Keningwurbe wardeins per were, Sir Willam de la Cowe, pat constable was bere, & sir Jon de la Warre, maister of ech on. Hii adde of stakwardemen mid hom mani on. Hii adde wel astored ben castel in ech side Of corn & Hess, igadered in be contreie wide. Sir Henri de Hastinges mid hom was al so, & sir Nicole de Bois, & mani god knizt ber to. •{• averte fo lium, & Maister Peris of Radenore, put was, ic vnderstonde, dicite duo ex ilia pe stalewardeste clerc on of al Engelonde. parte, & duo ex Maui was be gode bodi, bat ber al so was, ista parte. & 1 ... d . wen- It was nei Alle Hale we tid, ar it were, ido. iampt. P° 'e^ Pe king someni, aze be Tiwesday Next biuore Alle Halwe tid, as is conseil bi sai, Bissopes & Abbodes, & priores ber to,- Erles & barons, & kniztes al so, bat hii were at Norbhamptone, to hure & at stonde To be lokinge of bis tuelfe of be stat of the londe. pere it was despepled be edit ywis. bat was be ban of Keningwurbe, bat was lo bis ; bat ber ne ssolde of heie men deserited be none, pat hadde iholde aze be king, bote be erl of Leicetre one. Ac bat alle be obere adde azen al hor lond, Ober hor eirs pat dede were, bote pat pe king in his hond It hulde to an terme, bat pere iloked was, Vif zer some & some foure, euere vp is trespas, Fo, 164. & some pre pat lest was, & wan al were ido, pat ech man hadde is londes, bat rizt adde ber to. bis lokinge was rizt foi in such destresse iwis. Ac euere be sege of Keningwurbe & laste vor al bis. In siknesse hii wibinne velk atte laste Of menison, & ober vuel, bat hii feblede vaste. & bat hom ne com no socour hii seie al so wel, So bat, as hii nede moste, hii zolde vp ben castel, Saue Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 569 Saue euerich lif & lime, & chateus al so, Ne bat non nere deserited, ne in prison ido. In pis fourme aboute Midewinter be castel izolde was. Me seie men hii come out, as no wonder nas. do wende pe king al in pes to holde is kinedom. Ac zut sone per after a nywe cas him com. Vor be erl Gileberd of Gloucetere, somdel mid suikedom, Gret poer & inou priueliche him nom, & be tebe day of Lud in to Londone he drou, & made, bo he was wibinne, be zates vaste inou, & hulde aze the kinge bun toun, & alle his. Sore was be king anuid, bo he hurde pis. pe legat was po in pe tour, him he bilay, & bisegede him per, bobe nizt & day. be legat was sore adrad, vor to be inome. Nober mete ne drinke ne moste in to him come. Manie deserites to be erle drowe, bat he adde mid him auzte men inowe. be king wende to Londone, to helpe be legat. Ac he ne moste come wib inne neuer a zat. be deserites wolde bataile him ziue anon. Ac be erl nolde nout, ac destourbede ech on. be king wende to Stratford, to a bide more mizte, & aboute Londone is pauilons pizte. Bi a posterne be legat, boru quointise & gik, Hii brozte to Stratford, wib oute Londone to mile. Wi king aboute Londone was mid is route A monbe vor to abbe is toun, & euere he was wiboute, & 570 Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. & eiztc wouke wibinne be erl him huld , boru be king of Alimaine acorded suppe .... & boru sir Philip Basset, & pis me huld po An ende of a foxe's wrenche, vor zut he coupe mo: po was put lond in pes wiboute destourbance, & be worre nas no leng, boru be pourueance. per after sone sir Edward, as ich vndqrstonde. be crois nom at Norhamptone, to pe holi londe. Subbe per was at Londone a lute destance, ich wene, In zer of grace tuelf hundred & sixti & tenc. So pat pe erl of Wareine slou, atte verste touche, Biuore pe justises atte benche, sir Akin de la Souche. be king was per of anuid, vor pe grete won. pe erl hadde so gret help, bat he of scapede wel inou. Vor be Sonendai after Lamasse biuore be king he com At Winchestre, as him was iset, to avonge is dom. Mid him viue & tuenti kniztes bun of suore per, pat he ne dude it vor non vuel, ne malice bispeke er. Ne in no despit of be king, & vor bis trespas He zef be king tuelf hundred marc, & ipaised was. bo wende sir Edward toward be holi londe bulke heruest nobliche, as ich vnderstonde. & after be Assumption pe vifte day iwis, He dude him in pe se at Douere he & his. be quene wende vorb mid him, & is vncle bat was Sir Willam de Valance, & al so sir Thomas Of Clare, & sir Pain de Chaus, & of Clifford sir Ro°-er & sir Roberd' Tipetot, & mani ober per. Sir Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. 571 Sir Henri of Akmaine ber after sone, alas ! Wende to be court of Rome, to make som purchas. In be monbe of Lude as he com hamward bi cas In be toun of Biterbe aspied he was. Vor in a Friday be morwe, vp Sein Gregorie's day, As he stod at is masse, as but folc isny, Biuore be weued in his bedes, at the secre rizt, Com sir Gui de Mountfort, that was stalwarde knizt. & is aunte sone, alas ! iarmed wel inou, & commune wib him, & to him euene drou, & s ...... im boru out wib is suerd, & villiche him slou. & tat of holi churche me pinch wib vii wou. AP- 573 APPENDIX. Num. I, Vide Pr?ef. §. VI, 1 De mirabilibus Britannias," out of an old folio MS. in Vellam, given me hy Richard Graves, of Mickleton in Gloucestershire, Esq. NSULA Britannia, cui quondam Albion nomen fuit, per milliaria passuum octin- genta in boream longa, latitudinis habet miliaria ducenta. Hajc quinque gencium Unguis, videlicet Britonum, Anglorum, Sco- torum, Pictorum & Latinorum, facta est communis. Tantae autem fuit gracise z fuit" iiihabitantibus eim, ut quatuor in ea * caulas a fine in fiuem construerent, jegia sublimatos auctoritate, ne aliquis in eis inimicum inva- dere auderet. f Primus ab oriente in occidentem vo catur Ykenildcsfrete. Secundus ab austro in aquilonem vocatur Ernigestrete. I Tercius ex transverso a. Doveria in Cesfriam vocatur Watlingestrete. I Quartus major 1 A manu antiqua est iste titulus, sed paullo recentiori quam ilia a qua & ipse tractatus scriptus erat. 2 Dele. J Pro, calles. ceteris Appendix. 573 ceteris incipit in Totenes, & desinit in Catenes/ & vo catur Fossa, quae tendit per Lincolniam. Continet autem Britannia illam regioncm, qua? vocatur Anglia. Conti- iret & illam partem, regionis, quas dicitur Wallia. Conti net & Albaniam, i. Scotiam, usque ad mare Scolicum. Britannia inter omnes insulas est vel prima vel maxi ma, quam natura benignior adeo reddidit ad inhabitan- dum acceptam, ut quicquid usus desiderat, vel luxus ap- petat, ex ea proveniat, aut aliunde transvehitur ad ean- dem. Advenas etiam accedentes ad earn ita allicit, ut vix ulterius animum re.patriandi cojicipiant. Nee admiretur lector, si mirabilia ejus describimus, licet facie prima iacredibilia videantur. Neque enim judicanda sunt fa- bulosa, qua? a studiosis ' inquesitoribus pro maxima parte jam comperta sunt fore vera. Nee requirat auditor in hiis racionem, quia si racioni singula subjacerent, Bri tannia non esset in mirabilibus admiranda. Nam plus de nomine seriptoris dubito, quam de mirabilium subscri- ptorum fide. * De mirabilibus Britannue.'1 JLfE cavernis terras ventus egreditur in monte, qui vocatur *$ZZt, tanto vigore, ut vestes injectas rei- ciat, & in altum elevet. S Apud fetarujengt'Sft lapides mirae magniludinis in modum portarum elevati sunt, ut portae portis superposita; videantur, nee potest 3 excogi- tare, qua arte elevati sunt, vel qualiter constructs f A- pud Chcrarefiole, *• l&artefeeOIe, concavitas est sub terra, quam cum saepe multi ingressi sunt, ad spacia magna terras, & flumina pertransierint, ad finem tamen Venire non potuerunt. f Albus est 4 equs cum pullo suo. mirum 1 Sic. J Hic autem calamus neutiquam diversus est, , sed idem plane cum illo cui & ipsum tractatmji debemus. 3 Sic. * Sic. est, 574 Appendix. est, quod in figura equi sic factus fuit, ut, cum totus locus est equi ymago, nimis herbosus sit, super equi formam nunquam herba crescit, set semper ibi terra ad modum equi denudatur. I Lapis est non raagnus in ver- tice montis, quem si quis poitaverit spacio duorum mili- arium, yel quantumcumque voluerit, subsequenti die sine dubio in eodem loco in vertice montis, unde assum- ptus fuerit, poterit inveniri. f Bua? sunt fraxini, quarum una distat ab alia duobus miliariis, una vero earum uno anno viret, in alio quasi arescens videtur, & similiter quando ilia viret, altera arescit, quando vero altera are- scit, alia viret. f Mons est de »»entail in semita dua- rum viarum. si duo volunt ut separarentur, eat unus ex una parte montis, & alter ex altera, tarn diu, ut neuter alterum videre possit, & nunquam amplius in hoc seculo adinvicem se videbunt. Lapis est juxta viam. si quis illuc transiens super lapidem asccnderit, quocumque inde abierit, in eodem die reverti eum oportebit. ? Est lapis ingens concavus, ut turris ampla intus, & tenues parietes quasi manufacti, stans super quatuor columpnas grossitudine unius equi, unaque altitudine viginti pedum, & super eas stat turris, & in summitate turris est fons aqua? vivae dulcissima?, defluens per quatuor rivos largiter a summo usque deorsum. Est lapis tam magnus, quod omnes homines insula? eum a loco non possunt movere,. super alium lapidem magnum stans quasi pendens, sic quod ilium semper casurum credas, & est via hominum sub pendente lapide. H Sunt duo montes parvus & ma jor. & si duo homines currant unus circa majorem, & alter de majore ad minorem, & iterum retro ad majo rem, ibi sibi obviabunt ubi currere cceperunt. f Est fons dulcissimus in arenis maris, ubi mare cotidie bis crescit & ' decressit ad spacium fere mille pedum, & su per crescente & decrescente mari dislat fons a salo septem Sic- pedes. Appendix. 575 pedes. I Est lapis juxta fontem ad modum altaris fa*- ctus ia nemore. in quacumque die tingitur lapis ilk de aqua fontis ipsius, in eadem die fascundis-siine pluit. f Est Caribdis ingens vorago maris per giros subtus im manent rupem. jactes in illam voraginem quod volueris, virgas cum cortice vel magnas perticas insimul fnmiter ligatas, post paululum videbis dealbatas & cortice ca- rentes ' resortire, quasi vi projectas longe a voragine in litore unam post aliam. f Est lapis perforatus in vertice montis, in cujus foramine virgam mitlas, perge inde ad tria miliaria sub monte in arena maris, & virgam inve- nies. 1 Est lacus. si volueris reparare quodlibet sup- pellex ferreum domus tua? '* exeptis armis, porta ad Iacum. quod volueris reparare, & prandium quantum volueris, & mitte super ripam laci cibum & ferrum, & recede. poslea perge ad lacum, & invenies suppelkctilem bene paralum. 1 Est ostium juxta pedem montis cujusdam inaximi. * accepe tecum cibum septem dierum, & can- delara similiter, & intra in illam fossam, & manducabis cibum septem dierum, & candelam ardebis totam, & credes te fuisse ibi per septem dies, & tamen eodem die, quo intrasti, exibis, . & non eiis ibi per spacium unius diei. 11 Est fons in villa, qua? dicitur (Lflij?Cl)0, longe ab omni salsugine maris, unde fit optimum sal, & candidissimum ut nix, & subtile ut farina, sed -est aspe- rius. Et in die sabboti ab bora nona usque ad diern lunje mane, sed nee eciam in die apostoli, nee alicujus qua? fuerit feriata jussa a. presbitero villa? illius, nee in vigiliis potest inde uRo modo sal fieii. I Est quoddam castel- lum, in quo si intrent triginta homines, plenum esse vi- debitur. veniant iterum centum, vel milk, vel decern milia, & intrare poterunt largissime omnes. 5 Est ne- mus & aqua in nemore cinrens. accipe de lignis ipsiu^ 1 Sic. s Sic. 5 Sic. nemo- 576 Appendix. ' nemoris, & appara quocumque modo volueris, & mitte in eandem aquam, & sit ibi per totum annum, & trans- aeto anno lapides erunt ad formam quam fecisti. Sunt Badonis balnea semper calida, mediocriter quasi tem- perata ad balneandum sine aliqua administracione, & sic calida aqua de terra exit. f Est furnus Arthuri, qui factus est ad modum thalami rotundi sine tegmine, & tamen nunqiiara intus pluvia cadit, nee nix, ncc grando. ? Est ' sartofagus in via sub quadam spina, & est totus apertus sub aere, & nunquam pluit intus. si vero aliquis homo intus recubuerit, sive magnus sive parvus, tam aptum sibi inveniet, quasi ad mensuram suam factus esset. I Est alius ' sartofagus in via sub quadam spina, non magnus nimis, & est subtiliter apertus sub aere, & pluit intus ut alibi, sed nemini umquam aptus invenitur, quia parvis hominibus est nimis magnus aut nimis par vus, mediocribus vero hominibus aut nimis parvus aut nimis magnus^ magnis vero nimis parvus. I Est cam pus, in quo annuale tbrum quoquo anno congregari solet, qui si hodie tam spissis mercatorum logiis impkatur, quod nee homo inter logias stare possit, eras tamen spacium invenies ex utraque parte cujuscumque logiae, ut ibi fieri poterit logia ad magnitudinem prius facta?. Est la pis quidam in ChCUOth nemore ingens, ubi est arbor ad modum salicis cortice & foliis, qua? ad stadium unius bominis super terram in duobus brachiis dividitur, quo rum unum in unoquoque aestatis tempore virens foliis, & ceteris qua? ad arborem pertinent, giandes ferre videtur ut * quarcus. Cum autem appropinquat hyemps, cadunt simul giandes, folia atque cortex, sic quod totum rema- net nudum, & excoriatum quasi arefactum. Redeunte vero restate, redeunt simul cortex, folia & giandes. Sicut vero islud viret in aestate, sic viret aliud in hyemali tem- 1 Sic, pro sarcophagus. x Sic. pore. Appendix. 577 pore. Et sicut istud arescit in byeme, sic & aliud arescit semper in aestate eodem modo. 5 Est mons ingens, quinque miliarium spacium continens, "& venis ampnis quadraginta perticarum latitudinis usque ad pedem montis ubi intrat sub terra, nusquam apparens, set quasi eum terra absorberet, ex altera vero parte exit de terra magnus quantus intraverat. 1 Est quaedam ecclesia in Anglia, in qua, & in cujus * cimitario, si aliquis aliquid, quod suum non sit, capiat, furto, yel rapina, vel aliqua arte mala, adba?ret continue manus ipsi rei tam firmiter, quod nee manum nee ipsam rem ad se altrahere possit, donee veniat sacerdos & dicat orationem Dominican), & jungat ei poenitentiam qui furtum facere attemptavit. f Sunt aves in litore maris nidificantes in rupibus magnis. veniat ante fossam vir ubi nidus illius fit, aut prope aut delonge, ita ut vox sua usque ad fossum possit audiri, & clamet * Anglie vel Britannice, & dicet etiam, quis es, aut 3 quis vis ? Et dices, teni hue foras Sf ego occidam' te, & * cxclamauit avis quasi tristis & lacrimans dicens : Vce ! mihi miserol ad quid factus sum, quando nunc mo- riar? & venit ad te cito. f Est fossa qusedam profun- dissima, aqua plena quasi stagp.!?!:i. perge hue, & die, accomoda mihi hoc, nominans quod volueris, & statim accomodabitur si terminum reddeudi posueris. Si autem terminum sinas pra?tcriri & non reddas, numquam inde amplius quid accomodabitur. < 1 Est lapis mediocriter magnus spacio octo miliarinm a mari, & est foramen in lapide. Jacet autem lapis in sublimi colle, & quando crescit mare, implctur illud foramen aqua usque ad sum- mum, mare vero decrescente nunquam apparet aqua in lapide. I Ex putridis 5 abiectibus, inter maritimas flui- tantibus undas, prope litus nascuntur aves maritima;, ' Sic. * L. Anglice. * F. quid. * F. exclamabit. u pro It saepissime in vett. libris. s Sic. Vol. II. l* qua? 578 Appendix. qua? vocantur betfltklitd, qua? si, per iudustriam homi num capta? fucrint, satis apta? sunt ad eomedendum. ? Est stag.num * summonii, quia in z ea sunt insulas LX. & ibi habitant homines, & lx. rupibus ambitUr, & ni dus aquila? in tinaqiiaqne rupe est, & flumina fluunt lx. in eo, & non vadit ad mare ex eo nisi unicum flu- nien, quod vocatur %t\XX\l. ? Sunt magni lapides in Ox- enfordeiisi. pago, manu hominum quasi sub quadam connexione dispositi, set a quo tempore, vel a qua gente, vel ad quid memorandum vel signandum factum fuerit, iguoratur. Ab incolis autem vocatur 3 lacus ille, 1&0- lenur^cl). Num. II. Vide Prjef. §. VI. The Foundation of the Abbey of Glocester, and tbe change of the same before the Suppression thereof in the Reign of King Henry the Eight. }. JLN sundry fayre volumes of Antiquity Plainly to sett by evident relation, Th:it first founded this noble Monastery, The year of our Lord COO. fourscore & one, In time of King Etheldred, by devotion Of Osiike underking & chief Lord of this shier, Which after, as we read, was King of Northumbere. 2. When Osrike, as sayd is, edified this building, Which carved was with Caracts wondrous to sec, On mo.st goodly of places in that time being, ' F, summum omnium. 2 Sic. } L. loci< He Appendix. ~ 579 He it indued, of his Liberality, With pleasant possessions, & large liberty, Garnishing it gaylie with Ornaments also, The year of our Lord 600. fourscore & two. 3. The said noble Osrike, by councell of Bosell, (Which was the first Bishop of Worcester Diocese,) Did put in here Nunns, to enhabite & dwell, And Kingburge bis sister did constitute Abbesse. So briefly concluding mine Author doth express, Accomplished was this Acte by refute Divine, The year of our Lord 600. fourscore & nine. 4. Three Ladies, descended of Kingly progeny, Kingsburge, Eadburge & Eve, Queens of the Marches, The poippous wealth renouncing of mondain Glory, Entred Religion, & were only Abbesses Of this place, whilst Nunnes the sametlid posses. Which was fourscore years & 4. nother less nor more. Besyde whome here was no Abbeie sith ne before. 5. For fraith with such frayltie is worldly prosperity, That suddenly it slideth, chaunging as the Moone. An evident Myrror hereof this place may be, Which, after great wealth, was brought to confusion Through war of King Egberte, the year or season Of our Lord seven hundred threescore & seven. And the Nunns then ravished from bence were dryven. p 2 The 5S0 Appendix. 6. The right redoubted Bernulpbe, King of the Marclies, Moved with pitty, of his most bounteous grace, With great Lands & Liberties this House did encrease, And sette here Secular Canons, which by the space Of ninescore years & ten inhabited this place, Eutring first the same, mine Author doth specifie, The yere of our Lord 800. fower & thirty. 7. After theis said yeares were fully expired, King Canute, conceyving the vicious living Of those disordered Clarkes, he then exiled, And, at the meeke request of Ulstan then being Bishop of this Dioces, he thither did bring Black- Monkes, which lived religiously, The yere of our Lord a thousand two & twenty. 8. But in short process of Fortune's adversity This Church was decayed, & utterly fordone, In the time of, Aklred, then Bishop of this Sea, Which is teedifyed fro the foundation, Retnyning therefore much Land & possession, Which translated to Yorke he never did restore, The yere then of our Lord a thousand & threescore. 9. A Lord of great puissance, named Ulsine Le Rewe, Was enjoyned by ...... for ever to finde, Satisfyhg for the seaven Priests that he slew, 7. Menkes ¦ Appendix. 681 7. Monkes for them to pray world without minde. The which thing to accomplish himselfe he did binde, Daylie to God calling for mercy & pilty, The yere of our Lord a thousand three & thirty. 10. With harte right devoute, & humble affection, As one to repentaunce reclaymed by grace. This said noble Ulfine, with dewe devotion, Brought here his seven Monks, & gave to this place Competent Lands by writing in like case, Them to maintaine, & finde continually, The yere of our Lord a thousand fower & thirty. 11. The victorious King William Conquerour, By thadvice & minde of Osmonde the Holy man, Made Serlo his Chaplyn Abbot & Governour Of this Monastery, greatly decaied then. The which Serlo was consecrate by St. Ulstan, A thousand yeres from Christ's Incarnation, A 3. score & twelve by trewe Computation. 12. Swift Fame, which all things reporteth equally, So spread had abroad the name of this Serlo, That great freedomes, Lands & Liberties trewely, At his request, were given & confirmed also By King William his Sonne, & other moe Nobles of the Realme, as in writing it is seen, The yere of our Lord 1060. & eighteene. r 3 Thomas 58£ Appendix. 13. Thomas Archbishop of Yorke, of his great goodnes, « Unto this place did restore willingly again Those Lands, which Aldred his Precessor dubtkss By 29. yeare wrongfully did detayne. Remorse thereof his Conscience did so constrain. And the yeare of our Lord then- truely to accompt To a thousand 4. score & fifteen did amount. 14. The wonderfull workes, wrought by power Divine, Be not hid, ne palliat, but flourish daylie. Witness hereof is Arilde that blessed Virgin, Whicli martyrized at Kinton, nigh Thornebury, Hither was translated, & in this Monastery Comprised, & did Miracles many one. As whosoe list to looke may finde in hir Legion. 15. Ed « ard also the second, most Honoured King, Whose Body lyeth buryed heere in this Churche, So Angelike was he, & ghostly in living, That God for his love many Miracles did woorch. By whose Oblations the South Isle of this Church Edyfyed was & build, & also the Queere, With many moe good deedes, not rehearsed heere, 16. Whilomc Religion in Earth was moch loved, Greatly gloryfied of many worthy Lord. By Roger Lord Barkley this thing is well proved, And Appendix. 5Sc And by Roger Lacy, (some time Erie of Hereford) Hugo de Portue, & eke Helias Gifford, Mr. Jon Maugrant, with other in like case, Which renouncing the world became Monks in this place. 17. And sondry famous Kings also of this Land, Intending to conquor the Realme Cekstiall, Renounced their kingdomes, & gladly tooke in hand Holy Religion, & became men. Spirituall. King Ceolulfe & Edberte to remembraunce I call, Which of North umber were Kings contignat, And after became Monkes surrendring their Estate. 18. Kenredus & Eklred, Kings of the Marches, There successively reigning, became Monks also, King Siberte of Estangle, & Offa dubtless And the noble King Cobby, whicli reigned both two In Estesex, Constance of Brittain, with other moe, As Sedwalla & Ive, became Monks in likewise, That Kings were of Westsex, mine Author doth devise. 19. The Right puissant Prince Constantine & Edgare, Most worthy in Realmes to have gubernat ion, Chief Shields of defence for the Church ever were, Under the shadow of whose sure protection Florished ever all the Holy Religion Of St. Benedict, which fro virtue to virtue To the Land of God proceeded ay new & new. p 4 Tlie 584: Appendix. 20. The Eternall King reigning in three two & one. Which all seeth, all knoweth, & all doth avise, With hundred fould shall reward every chone, Which here in their life this wretched world doth despise, And at tlie day.of Judgment shall say in this wise, " Come yee Blessed Children, and possess for your right " My Heavenly Kingdome, & dwell ay in my sight. 21. Where is & shall be eternall Joy, incomparable rayrth without heaviness, Love with Charity & grace Celestiall Lasting interminable, lacking no goodness. In that Citty virtue shall never cease, And felicity no Souk shall misse, Magnifying the name of the Kinge of Blisse. 22. This compendious Extract compiled was new, A thousand yeere 5. hundred fower & twenty From the birtbe of our Saviour Christ Jesue, By the Reverend Father of worthy memory Willm Malverne, Abbot of this Monastery, Whome God preserve in long life & prosperity, And after death him graunt Eternall Felicity. Ex MS0. Caio-Gonv. cui Titulus, Miscellan. Collectiones Mri. Robti. Hare. • I send you (saith my very learned and most worthy Friend Mr. Baker of. Cambridge, from whom I received Appendix. 585 received this old Account of the Abbey of Gloucester) Abbot Malvern's old Rythmes, rather at your desire, then that I think 'em of any value,- any otherwise then for the sake of the Author, and somewhat for the age. They would have been of more value, had Mr. Hare observed the an- tient Orthography, which he seems not to have done, or only in part. I could have wisht, they had been as old and obsolete as your. Author, who is really valuable upon that account, as well as his History. Num. III. Vide Prsf. §. XI. Out of the MS. of Robert of Gloucester, that be longs to the Heralds Office. A Petegreu, fro William Conquerour, of theCrowne of Engelonde, lynnyally descendyng, vn to kyng Henry the vi. Willelmus Conquerour. ' Robertus primus Willelmus Rufus, Henricus ter. filius, dux Normannioe. secundus filius. cius filius. ATT Westmynster William i crovned was, The furst day of Crestenmas. A gret thyng aftur dude he than, Made the kyng of Scottis his lege man. Also of euery hede in that lond by and by In Engelond he toke sex shilleng truly. He regnyd here on and twenty yere. Be yond see he lithe there. In 586 Appendix. In Normandy he deyed att hame, And was buryed in toune of Cane. He yaf his eldest son Normandy, 'And to- the secunde Engelond truly. To the thridde his goodes meuabk. This was holde ferine and stable. Willelmus Bastard, dux Normanniae, venit in Angliam anno Domini mil'esiruo lxvi(0. Willelmus Rufus. JL HEN regned William his second son, A fulk steme lokyng gome. He yaff his elder brother for his part Euery yer thre thousand marke. He was lether and vnwrast. For they in the Newe Forest Fifty ' niodur churches he droughe adoune, And made wild that arst was toune, He dude his soule litille note. For after ther in he was y shote. Water Terelle the arwe droughe, And ther with the kynge he sloughc. He regnyd here wyne xviii. yere, And fo Wynchestre men hym bere. He deyed with oute Issu truly. Than regnyd his brothur Harry. ¦ Verum alii de Guilielmo primo hoc jntelligendum esse notant. Henricus Appendix. 587 Htj •„ Iste Henricus reformavit pa- enncus rrimus. F cem inter Robertum fratrem suum & ipsum, ut singulis annis perciperet tres mille marcarum Matilda, fihaHen. Maria, fiha Hen. TT .- c . , . ' .,T . . ' ... „ u ab Henrico pnmo, & qui alteri rici, quaenupsitlm- rici, commssa iso- r ' ^ f peratori. nomas. sisperviveret, beres alterius foret. ¦ AfFTYR William regnyd anothur, Kyng Harry, his owen brothur. He made statut with good reed, That theuys thurghe hangyDge shuld be deed, Anothur he made a none ryghte, That monye makers shuld lesse hure syghte. He tok to wiff, as he wold, The kynge's doughter of Scotlond Mold. Of whom come ii. doughturs truly, Mold the Emperese, and hure sustur Mary, He regnyd here more than xxxv. yere, And to Redyng men hym bere. StephanUS rex. — Matilda. (Cilia Mariae [' filias se- cundae Henrici primi"]) quse nu- psit Stephano, regi Anglias. lFTUR kyng Harry evyn Then regned kyng Slevyn. The erlys son Bloys he was truly. He weddede Mold the donghturof Mary. A * good man he was be dene. I trughe kyng Harry was his emc. ' Has quatuor voces adjeci. * Hinc, pariter atque ex aliis qui. busdam locis, liquet, genealogias hujus aucfor«ini a partibus Hen, rici VI. aliorumque novatorum fuisse. He Ai 588 Appendix^ He regnyd here xviii. yere, And to Feuersham men hym bere. He deyed with out Issu truly. Then regnyd his cosyn Harry. RexAn- Henricus Secundus. ghte & ¦ . dux Nor- I mantis. Ricardus primus.. Johannes. X HEN regnyd Harry nought full wyse, The sone of Mold the Emperese. In his tyme then Seynt Thomas At Caunterbury marteryd Was. He held Rosomund the shen ; Gret sorwe bit was for the quen. Att Wodestoke for hure he made a toure, That is called Rosemounde's boure. By his wiff he hadde sones two, Richard the furst and John also. And after that he dayed a non, „ _, .. And was buryed at x Waltham. Ricardus primus. ND sithen regnyd his sone Richard, A man that was neuer a ferd. He werred ofte tyme and wise Worthily vpon Godis enemy se. And sithen he was shoten, a las ! Att castelle Gailard, there he was. xxxv. an Ms. ' Otlw.-is more riglitly inform ui, that he was buried at Font- Everard. Aft Appendix. 589 Att Founte Euerard he lithe there. He regnyd al most x. yere. Issu than hadde he none. There fore regnyd his brother Johne. Johannes rex. I i I Johanna, Henricus Isabella Richardus, Northa nupsit regina Sco- tercius pri- Irapera- comes Cor- Lewellino prin- tiae. mogenitus. trix. nubiae. cipi Walliae. AN Johne is tyme, as y vnderstond, Was enterdyted alle Engelond. He Was fulk wrothe and grym, For prestus wold nought synge before bym. In his tyme, as hit is seyd, Seynt Hughe of Lyncolne deid. In his tyme was lost muche lond truly Of Gascoyne, Brutayne & Normandy. In his tyme was gret deorthe : xii. d. an half peny loof was worthe, Then be made a parlement, And swore in angre verament, That he wold make such a sante, To fede alle Engelpnd with aspande, & eke with a white looff, Ther for he was to God lothe. A monke anone ther of berde, And for Engelond was sore a ferde. A poysone than he ordenyd a none. So was be poysoned, & deied ryght sone. He 590 Appendix. He regnyd here xix. yere, • & to Wofcetre men hym bere. Iste Henricus tercius puer ix. annorum, erigitur in regem. Iste ,, . TTT , .„ , Henricus IIIUS. incepit novum opus apud West- monasterium. Item magnates concesserunt eidein Wardas. Et ^FTER hym regnyd the third Harry, cito post cepit xvnid. in Anel. . ¦, , , , ,. , A. good man, and eke an holy. Iste desponsavit Elionoram, fu i ,. -^ u • • j In hys tyme werrys were fulk ham comitis rrovinciaa, de qua J J J procreatur Edwardus primoge- strong, uitus. , And eke muche stryffe in Engelond. The bataille of Lewys was than, And also the bataille of Euesham. And that tyme also ther was The translacioun of Sent Thomas. In bis tyme, as y vnderstonde, Come Freres Menores in to tbi;, londe. He regnyd kyng Ivi. yere, And to Westmynstre men hym bere. Iste Edwardus recepit homa- gium de Alexandro, Rege Scot- torum. Item edidit statutum Edwardus primus. contra ' mortuum manum, ut nulla terras & Uu &c. daretur -«-^ religiosis sine licencia. Et fuit -E^DWARD the furst regnyd than coronatus IIII0. die Septembris. truly. Iste habuit filium Edwardum T]lc sou ,le was of k n Carnarvan primogenitum, & tf . . , , A,T , lle conquered than alle Scotlond, postea copulatur Margarete, so- ^«"unu, rori Regis Francis, de qua pro- And toke Irlond iu to b>s bond, crcatur Thomas & » Edwardus. And was callyd that tyme conquerour. God yiue his soule moche honour. Sic. * L. Edmundus. Appendix. In his tyme he made subiette Alle Walys, and putt vnder yoke. He by heded that same tyme The prince of Walis the Newelyne. Juwes that tyme with outen doute Of this lond were clene put oute. At Westmynstre he hadde his burying. xxxv. yere he regnyd kyng. Edwardus secundus. ./xFTUR hym regnyd than his sone. The second Edward, as was to done. 1 bore was at Carnarvan. Truly he was a gracious man. Grett velony suffred he in his fyme Thurghe his wiff, the quene. For hure loue his lyff lost he In the castelle of Berkek, With an hote iron spet veramenf, That was putt in to his fundement. He regnyd almost xx. yere, And lo Gloucetre men hym bere, 591 Iste Edwardus secundus duxerat Isabellam, filiam unicam Phi. lippi regis Francias, apud Bono- niam, qui inde redieus coro- natus est in regem apud West- monasterium dominica littera, de qua* procreatur Edwardus tercius. Et ipsa fuit in trino gradu a, Sancto Lodowico, rege Franciie. Edwardus 592 Appendix. Iste Edwardus fuit coronatus xv». xtatis anno apud Westmo- Edwardus tercius. nasterium, in festo Purificatio- nis beatae Marias. | Edwardus Lionel, Johannes de Edmundus Thomas de Wode. princeps. dux Cia. Gaunt, dux Laungeley,dux stoke, dux Glou. rencia?. Lancastris. Eboraci. cestriae. XiFTUR hym regnyd his sone fulk ryght, Tlie Ille. Edward, that doughty knyght. v. sones he hadde truly here, That were to hym leue and dere. Furst the kyng dude a gret maistry, Att Scluce he brend a grett nauy. Att Cresse he/oughtea yayne, The kynge of Beme there was slayne, & the kyng of France putt to flight. No lengor than durst they fight. A segealt Calice he lede by fore, That lasted, xii. monthe and more, And or he thens wolde goo, He wan Calice and tounes moo." Att bataille of Peitours by ordynaunce "Was taken Johne, the kyng of France. At Westmynstre he lithe there. He regnyd almost Iii. yere By fore hym deyed Prince Edward, Whiche hadde a sone that bight Richard. RicarduS Appendix. 593 Anno IIII". Ricardi secundi in- surrexerunt wlgares Kancii. Qbut sine RicardiJS secundus. Anno V°. magnus poos Exen liberis. cecidit. Anno Xllll0^ fuit ven- tus Sancti Pauli. JL HIS Richard than regnyd sone After his belsire, as waste done. Att x. yere of age crovned was he. He was a man of gret beaute. In his tyme the Cornynte of Kent Vp arysyn, and to Londone went. And Sauay they brent, that ilke place, • '-'¦¦ The whiche the dukes of Lancastre was. Thurghe evelle conceilk was slayne fulk snelk, The duke of Gloucestre, the Erie of Arundelk. He regnyd xxii. yere, and more, And to Langeley was he bore. But in the..v. kyng Harry is tyme, He was ley^e at Westmynstre, by Anne tbe quene. TT . tttt Anno I*, insurrexerunt quidem Henricus IIIIus. H duces contra eum. Anno 11°. I fuit stella comata. Anno 111°. r~ . ' "^ Ewyne Glendor insurrexit. An- Henricus Thomas Johannes Umfridus TIIT , ,, _ , _ ,,,,„,,„, no ltH°. bellum Salopiaj. Eo- princeps. dux Cia- dux Bed- dux Glou- , „. dem anno combuntur .Plym- rencias. fordias. cestnae. ,, . ,T. „ mothe. Anno VI°. bellum AFTUR hym regnyd than Blackepole. Item eodem anno m, .... TT ,. , , , . insurrexit archiepiscopus Ebo- Ine uu. Harry that doughty , /,. . , * ° rum, comes Notyngham, & decapitatur. man. ' Pro, Sf comes Notyngham, Sf decapitantur. Vol, II, 0 Att 594; Appendix Att Westmynstre crovned he was, Wher of Engelond made solas. In his tyme was a blasyng sterre, That alle men myght see ryght ferre. Walis was rebelle tho noughte, for thi Ewyn Glendor was cause truly. A doughty man he was and wise, In euery bataile he hadde the price. Att bataille of Sherewisbury truly Of his enymyes he badde the victory. He regnyd here almost xiiii. yere. And to Canterbury men hym bere Iste Henricus recepit homagium de reee Scottorum, & in Fran. __ . . ., , . „ Henripus quint us cia recepit homagium apud ^ Parys. .A.FTUR hym regnyd his son than The. v. Harry, truly a gracious man. Att his begynnyng verament He stroyd Lollers, & were shent. Aftur he made Religious att the Shen then, Sion, Jerusalem and eke Bedlem. The iii. yere he went truly, And gatt Harflettin Normandy. Att Egyncourte he hadde a bataille ywis Hamwardys, ahd there hadde the price. He toke there the duke of Orleance, The duke of Burbon, & many of Fraunce. And aftur that he wan Cane toune, Rone, & all Normandy, as was to done. Also Appendix. 595 Also he wan Parys worshipfully, & many mo tounes with ' meux in bry. Kateryn the kynge's doughtur shen He toke than to his quen. He hadde a son of hure y bore, That is called Harry of Wyndesore, In France he deied goodly thurghe God is grace, And was brought in to Engelond in short space. He regnyd x. yere, who so list to haue reward, Lithe att Westmynstre nought fer fro Seynt Edward. Iste homo Iste fuit coronates in Anglia fuit & est in apudWestmonasterium, die Do. VIII°. gradu Henricus sextus. minica, in festo Sancti Leo. a, Sancto Lo. nardi. Et in Francia fuit co. dowico. ronatus die Dominica post fe. . stum Sancti Leonardi, ann» A.FTUR hym regnyd his sone full decimo aetatis sus. *yght, Thevi. Harry, that yong knyght. The duke of Bedford with good entent Was his vncle, and of France Regent. The duke of Gloucestre, his vncle also? Of Ingelond was protector tho. In his regne the viii. yere He was crouned att. Westmynstre. And the x. yere by and by At Parys he was crouned truly. * Vide Titi Livii Foro .Juliensis vitam Henrici V. a nobis edi. tam, pag. 49. Q 2 Num. 596 Appendix. Num. IV. Vide Prjef. $. XII. , A Letter to Mr. Bagford, containing some Remarks upon GefT'ry Chaucer and his Writings. ' Sir, deLkir,a"dtobenS- I Cannot but hiSh1y commend yom Industry vour to give an Ac- in being so inquisitive into the Life and couut of the Life Writings of Geffry Chaucer, the Prince of our Geffry Chaucer. ° English Poets ; and I am extremely oblig'd to you, for the Account you sent me ofthe Edi tions of him, that you have hitherto met with. Would others but imitate your Diligence, we should understand this excellent Poet much better than we do, and be able to give a far more correct Edition of him than has hi therto appear'd. Such an Undertaking will derive great Honour upon those, that shall ingage in it, and will be gratefully receiv'd by all true Scholars and Antiquaries. For Chaucer was not only an excellent Poet, but was admirably well vers'd in most Parts of Learning. And besides his profound Learning, he was a compleat Gentleman, and skill'd in all the Arts of Address. These Qualifications made him belov'd and honour'd, and his Conversation and Acquaintance were courted by the Greatest Personages, insomuch that he was sent Ambassadour into Fbrreign Parts, where he came of with as much Applause, as he did in any of his Perform ances in his own Native Country. This does not seem to be at all owing to his Birth, his Father, notwithstand ing wealthy, being, in all .probability, only a Merchant ; tho' I know, that Leland, in which he is follow'd by Bale, tells us, that he was nobili loco natus, which seems to be a mistake, there being no Evidence now re maining, that we know of, to confirm such an Asser- tion, Appendix. 597 tion, unless it be that from the Roll of Battle-Abbey we learn, that the Chaucers came with the Conqueror into England, and that Pitts tells us, that his Father- was a Knight. Nor are we uncertain only as to his An cestors, and his Quality, but there are a great many other Particulars relating to him, which, at present, we know nothing of, which I am perswaded we might be satis fied in by a diligent Inspection into ancient Records. I have not time my self to assist in any such Attempt; and therefore I leave it to your self and othersi who have both leisure and opportunity of going through so de sirable a Work. We have several eminent Persons for Piece- §. 2. In which we dents in this usefull Inquiry, which cannot have WOlhim Cax. T , ton, • and several but add Life and Vigour to those who con- other eminent Per cent themselves in it. For soon after Print- sons for Precedents. ing was established in this Island, William Caxton, be sides divers other good Books, set himself carefully about searching out and publishing the several Pieces of Gef fry Chaucer; but 1 much question, whether be printed divers of them together. For tho' Stow and some others inform us, that he was the first that publish'd his Works, yet I believe they are to be understood of some Pieces printed by him in distinct and small Volumes, and not after the Method that was follow'd by his Successors. For Richard Pynson, in his Preface to his Edition of the Canterbury Tales (which Ave have amongst Mr. Selden's MSS. and contains nothing else) acquaints us, that he printed them from a Copy, that was prepar'd for the Press by his Master William Caxlon, but gives not the least Hint, that they had been before printed. Caxlon and Pynson having spent their time so successfully upon Chaucer, and so much to the Content and Approbation of learned Men, others were soon animated to advance q 3 and ,598 Appendix. and promote what they had begun ; and accordingly se-' veral Editions follow'd with Improvements, as you have particularly specify 'd in your Paper: but Caxton and Pynson were exceeded in their Labours by William Bate- ¦bil, alias Thinne, Esq. who having collected all the old Copies of Chaucer that he could any ways procure, and having with great Exactness corrected a Vast number of Places, and made considerable Additions, amongst which must not be passed by hisNotes and Explications, publish'd the Work in one Volume in Folio in the Year ' MDXii. (not in moxlii. as Mr. Wood insinuates 2) which was printed at London by Thomas Bertholet, as is noted by Mr. Leland3, and dedicated to K. H. VIII. Twenty Years after this John Stow *the Antiquary collated this Edition with several MSS. (some of which, I suppose, are part of those that had been colkcted a great many Years before by John Shirley, Esq. who died in the Year mcccclvi 5. and not in mcccclxv. as you mistake) added some Pieces not printed before^ and in the Year.MDXcyn. joyn'd to him divers Poems of Lidgate ; which being done, he drew up an Account of Chaucer's Life, of his Preferment, Issue and Death, collected out of Records in the Tower and other Places, which he at length communicated to Thomas Speghtt who publhh'd him the same Year, with the said Improvements of Stow and his own, and me- thodiz'd his Life according to his own Judgment. After this Francis Thinne, Lancaster-Herald at Arms, a Person very well vers'd in Antiquities, and descended, as it seems', from the before mentioned William Thinne, but not his Son as is affirm'd by Speght in his Life of 1 See Stow's Annals Edit. foi. p. 326. and Mr. Leland de Scri- ptorib. in \\tnChauceri. z Athena; Oxon. Vol. I. col. 53. 'Loco citato. 4 See his Annals loc. cit; 4See Stow's Survey of London, p. 416. 6See Wood's Athena; Oxon. Vol. I. col. 320. Chaticert Appendix. 599 Chaucer, corrected this Edition in abundance of Places, ' drew up several Notes to it, and put them into the Hands of the said Mr. Speght, who remitted them into another Edition of Chaucer printed in Folio in mdcii. which is the most compleat Edition we have yet, and, besides the Explication of old and obscure Words, contains great Variety- of Improvements, that were not in former Im pressions. But I shall not trouble you with a Catalogue of the Editions of Chaucer, which you are acquainted with far better than I can pretend to. I shall, however, ifl mfeet with any Edition, that you have not specify'd, let you know of it ; and in the mean time I must take notice, that I have seen some Pieces of him printed se parately that you have not mention'd, and 'tis likely I may meet with others hereafter in my Searches. . Amongst Mr. Selden's printed Books in the Bodleian Li brary is a Quarto Collection of old Romantick Pieces, the first of which is, The story of the noble Kynge Ri- chard Cure de Lyon, pr. at London by Wynkyn de Worde an. mdxxvui. The Author's name is not added, and therefore 'tis put down in Dr. Hyde's Catalogue as an anonymous Tract ; but, upon consulting the Book, I find, that some body, perhaps one that was formerly Owner of it, has writ the following Words at the Be ginning, By Jeffree Charsher Pooet Laret. What Au thority he had for this, I will not pretend to guess ; but I thought fit to give you an account of it, that you may, at your leisure, examine into it. In the same Library we have another Collection of old English Pieces, which was also Mr. Selden's, in which is the Ploughman's Tale, with a short Exposition of the Words and Matters, pr. at Lond. hdcvi. Quarto. This Exposition is very usefull, and the Author, who, it may be, was the said Francis Thinne, shews himself to be a Man of s*kill, and to have o_ 4 been 600 Appendix. been a Master of Chaucer. Besides these two Pieces, I must hint to you, that the famous Mr. Elias Ashviole has printed, The Tale of the Chanon's Yeoman, in his Theatrum Chem. 1 (before which he has put Chaucer's Picture and Epitaph from Westminster- Abbey) and that in his Museum at Oxford is The Miller's Tale, and The Tale of the Wife of Bath, with Comments, pr. at London in mdclxv. which last I have not yet seen ; but I shall take the first opportunity to do it, and I will not fail to let you know the Issue of my Inquiry. §. 3. Who never- But notwithstanding theseexcellent Persons theless have not Labours were so successfuU, as that they may been so exact in perhaps, to some to have superseded all their Editions, but ' \ r ' . |, , that they might be future Attempts, yet I may with Modesty as- still corrected and sert, that a much more correct and compkat T^e^rZS. Edi,ion of «««r might be given than any ded that were never that has hitherto appear'd. I have consulted yet publish'd. _. some 0f our Oxford MSS. and find, that the Print is in a great many Places corrupted, that in other Places whole Verses are wanting, which might by these Helps be supply'd, that sometimes the Titles of the Tales are chang'd, and that, lastly, intire Tracts might be added, that were never yet made publick. I took more particular notice of one MS. there1, which is a Col lection of Poems, some whereof bear Chaucer's name, and others have no name at all, which-, nevertheless, I take to have been written by him, as being in the same Style, and all in the same Hand, which I guess to have been of the very Age of Chaucer. From this Collection, from those that were in Mr. Stow's Library, from that mention'd by Mr. Edw. Philips in bis Theatrum Po'e- tarum, and from a mullitucte of others, we might, in all 1 Pag. 227. 2 Inter. Codd. Fairfaxii, num. 16. Uke- Appendix. 601 likelyhood, make another intire Volume of Chaucer in Folio. . I shall not give my self the Trouble of mul- , §• £, A Fragment tiplying Instances, to confirm what is before Tale, with a Passage asserted, since those cannot but be obvious to at the End of • The every one, that shall have the Curiosity to in- Parson's Tale, by . . . ,.,,, ,, u/r,\i v . t which Chaucer re spect and examine a little tlie MSS. Yet 1 yokes some 0f jjjg think it proper at present to inform you, that Works. as the Prologue of the Squire's Tale, iu an excellent MS. of Mr. Selden's ', is quite different from that in the Print, so there are eight Verses in the Tale it self, which are not in the common Editions. For whereas we have receiv'd as yet but two Verses of the third Part, with a Note signifying-, that none of the rest, notwithstanding diligently sought after, could be recover'd, we have here the following ones, which immediately precede the two already printed, vie. But I here now wol maken a knotte, To the tyme it come nexte to my lotto. For here ben felawes behynde an hepe truly, That wolden talke ful besily, And have here sporte, as wel as I, And the day passith certeynly. Therfore Oste taketh now good hede, Who shal nexte telle, and late him spede. And whereas you mention a Passage, inlit'led Pzniten- tia ut dicitur pro fabula Recloris, by which Chaucer revok'd several of his Books, that you found printed ia an Edition of his P.oems with Mr. Tanner, which you have not seen in any other, I must, withall, acquaint you, that I have found the same Revocation in a * MS. 'Arch. B.SO.inEibL Bodi. * Inter Codd. Caroli Hattoni num. 1. 602 Appendix. In the Bodleian Library, which because it is fuller than that you mention, and somewhat different, I shall tran scribe at large. Now prey I to hem allj that herken this litul trelise Or reden, that if ther be any thing in it, that liketh hem, that thereof thei thahken our Lorde Ihesu Crist, of whom procedeth alle witte and all goodenesse. And if there be any thing, that displese hem, I prey hem also, that thei arrecte it to the difaute of myn unkonnyng, and not to my will, that wold fayne have seid better, if I hadde konnyng : for oure boke seith, that al this is writen for oure doctrine, and that is myn entent. Wherefor, I beseche yow mekely, for the mercy of God, that ye prey for me, that Crist have merci of me, andforyeve me my giltes. and nafneli my translations, and enditinges, world ly vaniiees, the which I revoke in my retractions, as is the boke of Troilus, the boke also of Fame, the boke of the fyve and twenty ladyes, the boke of the Duches, the boke of Seint Valintyn's day, of the Perlement of briddes, the Tales Caunterbury, tho that sownen unto syn, the boke of the lean : and many another boke, if thei wer in my re membraunce, and many a songe, and many a lecherous lay, of the which Crist, for his grete mercy, foryeve me the syn. But of the translacion of Bocte de consolation, and other bokes of Legendes of Seints and Omelies, and Moralite, and Devocion, that thank I oure lerde Ihesu Crist, and his blisful Moder, and al the Seintes in He- %en, biseking hem, that thei fro hen for the unto my lyres ende send me grace, to bewaile my giltes, and to stodien to the savacion of my soule, and graunte me space ofver- rey penitence, Confession and Satisfaction to don in this present life, thorgh the benigne grace of him, that is king of kinges, and prest over alle prestes, that bought us with the precious blode of his hert, so that I may ben oon of hem, at the day of dome, that shullen be saved : And he that zorote this boke also. Amen. Qui cum patre &c. Th is Passage immediately follows these Words, And the rest by travailc, and the life by deth and mortificacion of Syn, and is so continued with the Tale, as if it were part of Appendix. 603 of it ; but tho' this Revocation be also extant in the abovemention'd MS. of Mr. Selden, yet it is written as distinct from the Tales, which conclude with tbat of the Parson. For thus it is brought in, Here enden the Talis of Caunturbury, and next thautour taketh leue. — Now pteye I to hem alle &c. So that it begins just as that which I have transcrib'd above ; but however is much shorter, ending with the Booke of Seint Fa- lenty. Besides the Tracts said in this Revocation §. 5. This Revoca- to have been written by Chaucer, and the tion seems not Se- Difference of the three Copies, vis. our two, been ldded £ ^e and that in Mr. Tanner's Book, we may ob- Monks. serve, that the Scribe has intit'led himself to a share in the Petition; whence I begin to think, that the Re vocation is not genuine, but that it was made by the Monks. For not only the Regular, but Secular, Clergy were exasperated against Chaucer, for the Freedom he had taken to expose their Lewdness and Debauchery) but nothing gave them so much offense, as the Plow man's Tale, in which he has, in lively Colours, describ'd their Pride, Covetousness, and abominable Lusts, and shew'd that the Pope is Anti-Christ, and they his Mi nisters. Such a Satyr, made by a Person of his Note and Distinction, and so much celebrated for his won derfull fine Parts and exquisite Learning and Judgment, could not but work mightily upon them, especially when many of them had arriv'd at so high a Pitch of Wicked ness, and were, as it were, drown'd in Sloath and Luxu ry, being much worse now than their Predecessors above three hundred Years before, when most of even the Bi shops themselves were illiterate, tho' ador'd and flat- ter'd upon account of their Dignity and unbounded Wealth, and attended upon by an amazing Number of Ser- 604- Appendix. Servants and Sycophants : circa ea tempora plerique episcopi erant illiterali, pecuniis Sf- blanditiis potentes, vestium apparatu, satellitum strepitu muniti, as in the MS. History of the Church of Lichfield in the Bodleian Library '. They could not endure to think of a Refor mation, especially since they were indulg'd to keep Concubines, now Celibacy had so generally prevail'd, which, however commendable in it self, if it be ob served by such as can contain, gave occasion, in great measure, to tbat exorbitant way of living, which we hear of in this Age. Nor did the Extravagances of the Court serve a little to heighten and countenance them in their Proceedings, the young King (notwithstanding endow'd with several excellent Qualities) and those that were his nearest Favourites, being wholly as it were addicted to Pleasures, which were set out in the utmost Splendour and Magnificence; and that was the chief cause, that mov'd a Rebellion against him, which did not cease, 'till he fell a Sacrifice to those Miscreants, in which the Clergy had some share, and for wliich they were excommunicated, as I have seen in a certain Manuscript Fragment in the Bodleian- Library, which has not been taken notice of by our common Historians, and the ,Act it self exclaim'd against with the greatest Horrour and Indignation by all virtuous and loyal Men. c * tfii.™, But if, notwithstanding what has been al- §. 6. It it be sup- ' a pos'd tobe au then- \ kdg'd, it be suppos'd, that this Revocation is tick,'tislikely'twas authentkk, and that 'twas penn'd by Chaucer writtenby Chaucer . towards the latter himself, we may then conjecture, that twas F.nd, of Richard the done by him towards the latter End ofthe second's Reign, he Rd of Richai.d U wnen llaving ]ost tne fa. being then old and ° . . ° _ in disgrace forstrik. vour ot his Prince, and most of his noble ing in with the Friends here, and being, withall, grown old, Multitude in some ,je ^^ |limgeIf fmm pkasures of t))e dangerous Enter- prjze. ' Mus. 66. World, Appendix. 605 j World, and reflected seriously upon the^ Changes and Infirmities to which humane Nature is subject. This Consideration, with the Thoughts of a future State, could not but make him renounce the Vanities of this Life, and retract those Passages, which he percetv'd, either had or might do Mischief to Religion and Morality. After which he became quite weary of this Life, and seem'd to have no relish for any thing in it ; tho' that may be at tributed chiefly, perhaps, to the Misfortunes which happen'd to him, he and his Lands being taken into. the King's Protection in the second Year of his Reign, because of some danger that seem'd to threaten from bis favouring and striking in with the rash Attempts of the common-people. Whatever this Attempt was, whe ther Rebellion, or something bordering upon it, 'tis certain he forfeited the Love of his Prince and most of his Friends, and he was forced to lead afterwards a melancholy Life, which often extorted from him griev ous Complaints, particularly of his own Rashness in following the Multitude, and sometimes would wish to exchange Life for Death ' ; whicli Misery, however, was , fortunate in this, that it prepar'd him the better for Eternity, and influenced him to retract all the loose Things in his Writings. Now the Plough-man's Tale having given §.7. The reason -why more offence than all the rest of Chaucer's %e,PlouSh- ""»»'' 1 ale is found but Works, perhaps that is the reason why it ap- in few MSS. Some pears in so few MSS. I have not found it in tnink 'twas not one of those I have consulted at Oxford, which .. ... .s' ,' J ' his, it is improperly has made some think, .that 'tis not Chaucer's, call'd a Tale. and this they believe confirm'd from the Style, which is 1 This may be seen in the Complaint he made to his empty Purse, which Mr. Speght found ten times larger in Mr. Stow's MS. than in the, Print. diffe- 606 Appendix. different from his other Poems. Mr. Pitts confounds it with the Satyr, that is call'd Piers Plowman; but the Publishers have skillfully ascrib'd it to him, being warranted from a MS. in Mr. Stow's Library ; tho' it must be confess'd, that 'tis not properly terni'd a Tale, and it does not seem to have been put as one of the Tales by the Author himself: for they were suppos'd * to have been spoken and not written, as this is plainly said to be, the Plowman concluding thus : To holy Church I will me bow, Ech man to amend him Christ send space : And for my writing me allow He, that is almighty, for his Grace. The same word of writing is there made use of several times : as, For my writing if I have blame — —and, Of my writing have me excused ; which seems to me an undeniable Argument, that it was not delivered as all the rest were. I might from this occasion insist upon divers other Particulars, but I have already exceeded the Bounds of a Letter, and I am afraid I have quite tired your Pati ence. I hope, however, you will take what I have said as an Instance of my Readiness to serve you, being, with all Sincerity, Sir, Your very humble Servant Tho. Hearne. 1 See a Note at the Beginning of the Tales in MS. (iii Bibl. Bodi. inter Codd. Laud. K. 50.) by John Barcham. Num. Appendix. 607 1 Num. V. Vide Praf. §. XIV. The Preface of Mr. John Stowe to one Edition of his Summary (that comes to the Year 1573.) by which ¦ my Conjecture about Mr. Murray's Fra gments (that I have printed at the End of He- ming's Chartulary ) is confirm 'd. 1 To the Reader. \ALLING to memory e (gentle Reader with iwhat dilligence(tomy great cost andcharges) I haue trauayled in my late Summary of j the Chronicles : As also the unhonest deal- , ings of some body towards mee (wherof I haue long since sujficientlye written and exhibited to the learned and honourable) I perswaded with my selfe to haue surceased from this kinde of trauel, wherin another hath vsed to repe the fruits of my labours. * But now * setting fpr diuers causes thereto mouinge mee, I haue once ^ marke againe brief ely run ouer this smal abridgement, placing *a a,nothfr the yearcs of our Lord, the yeres of the Kings, wyth sell. the Shyriffes and Maiors of London in a farre more perfect and plain order, then heretofore hath bene published. Touching Ri. Grafton his slanderous Epistle, though the same, wyth other his abusing of me, was aunswear- ed by the learned and honourable, and by theym forbid den to be reprinted : he hath since that time in his se cond impression placed his former lying Preface, wher in he hath these woordes. * Gentle Reader this one * in the thinge offendeth me so much, that J am inforced to Je'is^T. purge my selfe thereof, and showe my simple and plaine ^- J®* & dealing 608 Appendix. dealing therein. One John Slow, of whom I will say »inthese-none eil;u &c> hath published a Booke, * and therin conde page , . % l. and hath charged mee bitiarlye, but chiefelye with two 4]&!&6.&c! thinges. The one, that I haue made E. Halle's Chroni cle my Chronicle, but not withoute mangelinge, and (as hee saith) withoute anye ingenious and plaine de claration thereof. The other thinge, that hee chargeth me withall, is, that a Chronicle of Harding's, which he hath, doth much 'differ from the Chronicle, which vn der the sayd Hardinge's name was printed by mee, as tboughe I had falcifyed Harding's Chronicle -&c. For •(TVanehis answeare I say, * the offence by me committed requir- piainedeai-^A no such forced purgation. I haue not so bitterlye iad'emente charged him, as he hath plainly accused himselfe in of otfiers. those thinges to haue offended. * My wordes be these. » In com- ° . . ¦ j i mending Some bodye (without any ingenious and plame decla- thors.) ration therof,) bath published, but not without mang ling, master Halle's boke for his owne. / name not Grafton. This is the firste. 1 he second is thus. John Hardinge &c. exhibited a Chronicle of Englande, with a Mappe or description of Scotland, to king Henrye the sixt, which Chronicle doth almost altogether differ from that which vnder his name was imprinted by Ri. *Is^ Grafton. * After this in the same preface he braggeth haue such a to haue a Chronicle of John Harding's written in the of I. liar- latine tongue, which hee assureth himselfe I neutr ^i"ss" sawe, and doubteth whether I vnderstand. If hee haue any such booke, it is like he woutd alledge it, as he hath done manye other Authors, whereof T am better assured, he hath neuer scene so muche as the oute syde • Ri. Graf- 0f theyr books. * If ther be no such Chronicle of ton neuer _ J sawe Ro- John Harding s, as he braggeth on, it is like I haue nesberve** not seene *l> an!^ must needes be hard to vnderstande it. Tho. Wai- Then he saith, my latter Summaru difereth cleant •ingbam, "-^ j jj front Appendix. 609 from my first. To this- 1 aunswere, I haue not chaunged H. of Leice- , , 7 „ , ster, Regi- eyther woorke or title, but haue corrected my first Booke, sterofBerye, as I haue founde better Auctours. But hee himself 'e the™ which hath made his last abridgemente, not oneliie cleane he,e aiiedg- ° u eth, for contrary to his first, but the tico impresions contrarye that hee r i • fiiideth the one to the other, and euerye one contrary to his t],em au mere History e. For his true' alledging of Auclors J^ljJ^" let men judge, by those which are common in our vul- uiarye. gar tongue, as Policronieon, Ro. Fabian, Ed. Hall, J)octour Cooper. Loke those Authors in those yeres, and peraduenture ye shal finde no such matter. Trye and then trust. This Preface (saith Mr. Baker, in a MS. Note at the Bottom of it) is left out of the last Edition, and perhaps (as Grafton's wasj by order. Num. VI. Vide Prjef. §. XVIII. Some Remarks, in a late, but unknown, hand, at tlie Beginning ofthe Cottonian MS. of Robert of Glou cester, relating to the age of the Author, and con taining two Passages from a MS. Copy of this Historian, that was formerly in the hands of the learned Mr. Thomas Allen. C/ALIGULA A. XI. 1. Roberti Glocestrensis Historia sic incipit : Engelond his a wel god lond, ich wene ect londe best. I set in be on ende of be worlde, as al in pe west. In the bottom of tbe first Page is writ with a mo dern hand, Vol. II. n Post 610 Appendix. Post Edwardum I. floruisse Autorem hinc patet ex Foi. 67. b. + Etv.p.l], b. in frag. v. 74. b. Unde Anglumfuisse constat, v. foi. 98. B. Quae in margine adnotavimus, sunt ex Exemplari, quod vetustate huic nostro multumcedit, V. CI. Th. Allen Oxoniensis, trartscripta, usque ad Steph. Ed. nostr. Fol. 67. b. Of King Arthur. p. 224. v.6. _j_ & nabeles at Glastinbury his bones subbe me fond. s'" ' " '¦ & bere at nore be heye weued, a mydde be quer ywis, As is bones liggeb, in toumbe wel vair is. Fo. 71. b. in Fragmento. Ex Exempl. Th. Allen. X Deest in Segbrit, that I nempned ere, was a right holy man ; Cod. Har- l ' b J leyano. por the Abbey of Westminster he formest began. He was the first king, that thilk stete gan rere, And sithe at his ende day he was buried there.- Seuen hundred yere & six there were nigh agon Sithe that he was buried faire vnder a ston. And som del of him was also hool yfound, As thilk day that he was firste laid in the Ground. On our time come his three sonnes in ther hither hede To seint <$r. Mark'd to come in, in the Cotton Boole thus, Ed. nostr. So that hii come at one tyme, in hor luber rede, p. 238. lin. ao. To seint Mellit, Bissop of be lond, & at is masse sede— — At the bottom of this Page is writ, Desunt hic folia duo (forte quaternio) quod nempe ex Fxemplari CI. V. Th. Allen deprehendimus ; ubi historia de Mellito es alf, sive apes half, vel a thes- side, a this side, of this side, on this side. at holde, withhold, withdraw, will withhold. a pre, in three parts. at huld, withheld, should with. hold. atiled, accoutred. atom, at home. atome, 620 GLOSSARY. atome, at home. a to, a two, asunder, at difference. aton sive at on, at one, agreed, to agreement. at route, resist, rout, gather to. gether, to rout, to gather toge ther. at sitte, sit against. at stod sive at stode, withstood. at stonde sive a stonde, withstand, to resist, to stand, exspect,waitfor, stand, withstood, resisted, op. posed. it stonst. — ac pou ne at stontst yt nogt one. but thou didst not only withstand it. at stunt sive astynte, stinted or slackened his pace. atsytte, sit against. attan, at the. atte, of. atte lokinge, to the look ing, lo the care. atten, tit the. atten ende, al last, at the end. atte nende, at the end. attired, accoutred. atuo, into two parts. at vore. before. at wiste, twitted. atwytede, twitted, ab Angl. Sax. ebpitan. atyl, furniture, attire, solemnities. atyled, arrayed, attired, prepared, accoutred. atyme, one time, at a time. a tyre, attire, solemnities. auarde, a guard, an host. auaunsed, advantaged. aueng, received, embrae'd, took, Aueryl MueAueril, April. auev.e, a few. -avilede, despised, did injury, made vile, did wrong. avise, view. auisede, viewed. aumperour, emperour. auntre, adventure. They use aun- ters, for peradventnre, now in the North. auoire, possessions, substance. avonge sive auong, receive, to re. ceive, may receive, to embrace, received, took, take, faire a vonge, honourably received; fairly receiv'd ; well receiv'd. as ys gut vayre auong, being ho. nourably received in that place where he is yet. auongej, receive. .avoreward, by agreement. auote, on foot, afoot. a vowe, approbation, assistance, .protection. a vowery, idem quod a vowe. aute, ought. auysed, viewed, considered. auysse]>, a fishing. auyssynge, a fishing. auysyon, vision, a vision, tiding, a uysyons, a vision. auzte, high. awakunge, awaking. awatedc, awaited, ordained. awedde, was mad. awey ! alass ! a wey, away. aweyward, through by.placo. a wite, know. awlated, disturbed. a wreke, revenged, revenge, to revenge, avenge, avenged, to take vengcancei awreke be, be re. venged, be avenged. avvrete, to revenge. Axwed- GLOSSARY. 621 Axwednesdai, Ashzeednesday. ay, ever, always. a yayne, again. a ye, against, again. a yee, against, again. a yene, again, against. a yenst, towards, against. ay fet, covet. ayfull, full high, aw full. aze, against, again, with, towards, to. ther were aze, were a. gainst it. azen, towards, against, again^for, to. azen hom at hor will a fine, assist them at their pleasure ; fine or pay for their support at their will. Potest & find denotare, ut inde bachelerye, youth, courage. baddeliche, badly, bade, pray'd. hor bedes zerne bade, earnestly told their beads. baile, battle. baldeliche, boldly, baldore, bolder. ban, command, pracept, summons, edict, [& quidem edictum in Galfr. Mon. ubi de Arthuri ta bula rotunda loquitur] proclama. tion, ordinance. baner, banner, ensign, banneret. baneur, ensign, banner bearer, en~ sign bearer. bar, baron. bard, tough. innuatur, barnde, burnt. eos puniendos fuisse, qui non aliqnid emolumenti in illorum, gratiam atque usum invenirent. B bachelerie, the youth, young men. ybrfge bachelrie, young men, young' bachelours. Bladud wrouht many meruaile, Many a gude )>at git auaile. At pe last he wild Hie. ' Fedirhames he made slie. 1 done he tok his flight & 3 f . . n fer as he myght. Apone Je temple of Apolyn, , J>er on he felle & mad his fyn. Sir Apolyn so doun him cast, Jat body & bon alle to brast. Tuenty wynter was he kyng. At London he mad his endyng. "barnes, barons. baron, barons. baronie, barony, baronage, barons, barste, burst, broke. Others say brast. Thus Robert of Brunne in his Chronicle speaking of K. Bladud ; 1 Wings, Feher-haman Sax. talaria, shoes that Mercury, as Poets faine, did wear with (V ings. > F. ut Lomlor.-e. i Fj/jw. baru- GLOSSARY. baru, hog. baruot, bare-foot. base, Iqw. feast, bastard. baslarst, bastard. ba]?e, both. > be, of, to be, been, ne mowe nogt al be her ywryte, may not all be written of her, nisi forte in hisce verbis her idem quod here dcsignare velis. Be pro been cum alibi, turn #• p. 482. nccum't, ubi tamen monuimus, he forsitan esse reponendum. beburye, be buried. be cluthe, be called. bed, ask'd, bid, desired, prayed, bids, commanded. In the first Part of Robert of Brunne's Chro nicle, where he speaks of K. Ma rian, that succeeded Gurguttius or Gurgineus, 'tis the same as promised or offered. Sipen Marian faire in chere. He couth of wod & ryuere, Iri alle maner-of venrie. Him liked best suylk maistrie. Ladies bed him luf inouh, Bot his luf to non wild bowe, Bot only vnto his wyf. So endid Marian his lyf. bede, to promise, offer, to offer $ desired, desiredst, commanded, prayed, bid, said, besought, in. treated. bedes, prayers, hor bedes zerne bade, earnestly told their beads. bedoro, craved. behet, promised. Others say be. hight, and so 'tis m'd excellently weU by Thomas Norton in Ms Translation into Meeter of the 14th. Verse ofthe CXVI. Psalm : I to the Lord will pay the vcwes, that I to him benight : Yea, even at this present time, in all his peoples sight. Where our modern Innovators, not understanding the proprie. ty of the Word (which is truly English, from the Saxon be. hacan, to promise or to vow) have most unwarrantably alter. ed it thus : I to the Lord will pay my Vows with joy and great delight : Even at this very present Time in all his peoples sight. See below in the Word red. In Cumberland they say to hight for to promise or vow to this day. See hight. beire, bare. beithe, both. bellen, bells. belsire, grandfather. be mene, bemoan. ben, be. ben, goods. bende, bonds, bent. bene, bean. benefeat, benefit. bendes, bonds. be nyme (o, take from. benyngliche, kindly. beod, pray'd, offered. ber, GLOSSARY. 623 ber, carried. bere, pag. 208. beard. Sed cry, howling, fall sive suffering, for. sitan malint alii. At de bar- bis loquitur Galfridus^ quern consulas velim. Et tamen hac ipsa in pagina carried sive bear denotat. Vide gal. bere, bear, bring, pay, carried, behaved. berne, burn. berninde, burning. ' berst, burst, brake. b/saus, bezants. " A Besant " (saith Cotgrave in his Fr. " Diet.) was an auncient peece " °f golden coyne (worth fif. 'c tie pounds Tourn.) thirteene " whereof the French kings " were accustomed to offer at " tlie Masse of their Consecra. " tion in Rheims ; to which end " Henry the second (after some " discontinuance of that cus. " tome) caused the same num. *' ber of them to be made, anil " called them Bysanrins, but they " were not worth above a double " duckat the peece. be see, see. besette, be set, be put. be stonde, be detained, be begot. bet, better, bid, bad, desired, pray. ed, be, are. bete, beat, whip, abate, leave, make amends for, uttone for, make satisfaction for. bep, be, are. bette, better. beuerage sive beuerege, beveridge, reward, consequence. 'Tis a word nozv in use for a Refreshment between dinner and supper, and we use the word, when any one pays for wearing nczo Cloaths, Sec. beye sive bey, both. beyre, bare. bezonde, beyond. bi, in'. bi cas, by.chance. biclosi, close, inclose. bi clupe, be called. bi clnpte, embraced. bicome, become, come to^ bidde, ask, pray f of . biddest, prayest to. bidding, praying. It is well known, that by our * Canons before all Sermons, Lectures and Homilies, the Preachers' and Ministers of our Church are injnyned to move the People to joijn zsith them in Prayer, either in a Form there set down, or at least in one to that Effect. This moving the People to joyn in Prayer is called commonly bidding the Prayers, and that very pro. perly, since biddyng n'gnifies not only praying and prater, but commanding, enforcing, per, swading instantly, requesting and desiring. And here because our common Form differs from that in use formerly, I shall insert one that zcas used Num. LV. in. 62| GLOSSARY. in tlie time of K. Edward the municated to me by my vety VI. as I find it entered in my worthy Friend Thomas Ravolin* Collections ' from a MS. com. son, Esq. i 3 The fourme of biddyng of the commou prayers." 3 Fyrst yow shall pray for the whole congregatyo-n of the true Chrysten and catholyke churche of Chryste. And specyally for thys churche of Englande and Irejande. Wheryn, fyrste, I commende to your deuote prayers owr moste soiierangne lorde the kyng, supreme headeyn earthe, ymmedyatly onder God, of the spiritualtie and temporalty of the same churche of England and Ireland, that God, for hys greate mercy, send hym grace so to gouerne and to rule thys realme, that God be .pleasyd, worshyppyd, and to the profytt and saluacyon of thys londe. * And for quene Katerine dowagier.-» And also for my lady Mary, 5 and m-y lady F.lizabethe^ the kynge's susters. Yow shall also make yowr hartie and effectuall prayer to allmyghtie God, for the peace of all Christian regyons, and especyally, that the mooste joyfull and perpetuall peace and vnytie of thys realme and Scot. land may shortly be perfyted, and broughtt to passe, by the moste godlie and happie maryage of the kynge's maiestie, and the yong quene of Scot lande. And that y t woulde please the allmyghtie to aide with strengthe, wysdome, and power, and with hys holy defence, all those, who favor. ethe and settethe forwarde the same, and weaken and confounde all those, whiche laborethe or studyethe, to the lett and ynterrupcyon of so godly a quyet, wheTof bothe these two realmes shulde take so greate a benefyte and profyte. 6 Secondly, yow shall pray for my lorde protector's grace ; and fdr lorde Archbyshoppe of Cantorbury owr medopolytane, with all the reste of the kynge's maiestie's counsaill. for all the lordes Tspirituall and tcmporall of thys realme, and for the cleargie, and the commons of the same, besechyng allmyghtie God to gene euery of them, yn hys degre, grace to vse them selfes yn suche wyse, as may be to 1 Vol. 101 . p, 13G. ' This Title is in red Letters. - 3 This first Letter F is red. 4 This is struck out by another hand. ' So is this. s The first Letter S is red. Godde's' GLOSSARY. 625 Godde's giorie, to the kynge's honor, and to the weale of thys realme. Also ye shall pray for all the nobilitie of thys realme, for master Mayre of thys cytie, with all hys brethern, and the commons of the same. Also ye shall pray for all them that ben sycke or deseasyd of thys paryshe, that God send to them helthe the rather for owr prayers. And for all the parysyoners of thys paryshe. Also ye shall pray for all women laboryng of chylde with yn thys paryshe, or any other, that God send to them fayre delyueraunce to the chyldern's ryghtt shappe, name, and Chrysten- dome, and to the mother's puryfycatyon. Also ye shall pray for the peas hothe on londe and water, that God graunte loue and cherytie amonge all Chrysten people. 1 Thyrdly, yow shall prayse God for all them that be departed out of thys worlde, yn the faithe of Chryste, that they with ws, and we withe them, at the day of Judgement, may reste boithe body and soule, with Abraham, Jsaac, and Jacob, yn the kyngdome of heauen. * And of your cherytie pray for llip snulc= of my father and mother, and for all the soules that we ben bonde to pray for. And of your cherytie for the sowles off* 5 Amen. « < Master John Colman. r f Richard Knepe quondam rect. hujin Elizabethe hys wyffe. / 1 ecclesia^. ' Al aster Thomas Bele. f 1 Richard Warren. If Alvuhvswyff. J V. John Dyxon. And for all Christen sowles." Amen. bi gete, gain. bilay sive b'ilaye, besieged, belea- hi gonne, they went. guered. bi het, promised. bilemed, belimmed, loose a limb, hi hete, promised. have a limb cut off. bi hofpe, iehoof. bi leue, live, to live, leave, belief, bihulde, beheld. forsake, tarry, nolde bileue, biker, bickering, strife, contest. would not leave or Un. bilafte, left. bi leued sive bi leuede, left, was bi lai, belaid, beset. left, lived, continued, took away ' The T red. • This is scor'd out by another hand. » This Amtn by the hand that the Scores are done by. * AH this is likewise icof'd out. Vol. II. 8 their 62ft' GLOSSARY. their lives, [sic enim pag. 509. denotarc videtur, eo modo quo . §: biheucd pro beheaded, bi. lemedprotook away their limbs, e, behoof, profit, benefit. byque]? sive by quep, bequeathed. byquide, will, bequest. byreynynge, burning. bysay, saw, become, became, took care, advised. byse sive bysee, besee, see, busy, employ, look, look after, look out, look to, provide, consider, take care of. byseidon [vel potius bysei, quo modo legend, esse in notis mo- nuimus~] p. 517. loalc caxe, suv> to. bysette, beset, besieged. bjsmar, GLOSSARY 6Z3 bysmar, byrmejie, (irrisio,) mock ing, scorne. bysprenge, besprinkle. by sprengede, sprinkled. byssop, bishop, bishops. byst, pray est to. bysuyke, betrayed. byswynke, get by labour. bytake, commit, committed, offer ed, given. by taught, taken. by Joute, without. bytoc, committed. by tok sive bytok, committed. bytoke sive by toke, committed, gave it, committed it. by tot, vel potius by toe, sive by toke, committed. bytuene, between, amongst. bytyde, happen. bytyme sive by tyme, betimes. byuede, bozved. byuond sive byuonde, found, con trived. byuore, far off. by wan, wan, conquered. by weued, covered. C. cagte, catcht, caught. calangy, challenge. calis, chalices. cancrefrete, canker-fretted; eat up with cankers sive cancers. candelen, candles. candlen, "candles. caracts, characters^ marks, notes. Cardoyl, Carlile. carf, carved, cut, cut off, caroigne, carcass. carole, dance. caronyes, carrions, carcases. caroyne, carrion, carcases. cartre, charter. carye, care. cas, case, chance, fortune, accident. caste, threw. caste, castle. caudel, caudle, eel, seal. cellen, cells. certes, surely. chabbe, have. chafl'are, goods. chambre forene, a necessary house, boghouse, house of ease, or, as they commonly, but badly, caU it, an house of office. chanliche, pag. 471. ad imum paginal, (pro clanliche) i. e. cleanly. chantement, enchantment. chapitle, chapter. chapmen, chapmen, merchants, marketmen. chartren, charters. chaste, chastise. chasti, chastise. Chastles, Castile. chasty, chastise. chateus sive chateus, vel chateux, chattels. chatews, chattels. chaunge, be changed. cheauce, chance. cheiance, chance. chekere, chess. chele, chill, cold. cheue, clean. chere, high. chere, face, carriage, courtesy. ches, rSS4 GLOSSARY ches, choose. chese, choose. cheson, occasion. cheuenteyn, chieftain, captain, principal, author. cheui, chiefs. thing, king. chirchon, churches. Christene, Christians. Christienne, Christians. churche gang' sive churche gauge, churching,church-going, church- ganging, going to church. churchen, churches.. chydde, chid, contended, brawled, &c. chyrchegong, the same with churche gang. chyrchen, churches. chyrchyn, .churches. chyualerye or chyualyrye, chival. ry, knighthood, exploit, forces, pozzer, manhood, clam, climb' d. rlanliche, cleanly, clean, intirely. clannesse, cleaness. clepe, call, be called, me lette hym clepe, he was culled. clepede sive cleped, called, me clepede, men called, was called. clepethe sive clepeth, call. clepude, called. cleputh, call. clepyng, calling. chylde ry masse, childermass. chyrche, churches. chyrchegon, the same with churche clerc, scholar. gang. This clarke also -this wise Plinius Seith in Tauriche ther is an erth founde, That of nature is so vertuose, That woll cure euery maner wounde. Right so Marie was the eurth founde, That oute chese God bi eleccion,. To bere the fruyte of oure rcdempcion. Lydgate's Life of the Virgin call'd all great Scholars Clarks, Mary MS. neatly written on Vel lum in a little foi. in the hands of my Friend Thomas Rawlin. son, Esq. which is a much more correct book, than the same book printed in a thin folio by William Caxlon. Here zee see the word clarke is us'd of that great man Pliny. And'tis ' re markable, that in old time they Nay not only great Scholars, but all in our Universities, that were instructed in, and bred up to, Letters, were styled cleri or clenici, boys and youths, as well as others. Mr. Bryan Ticyne hath zcritfen expresly about this, and his Papers are in the School Tower at Ox. ford. ' Coll. nostr. MSg. Vol. 101. p. 181. clerkerss, GLOSSARY. G35 clerkene, clerks. clerkes, scholars. climbe, climb or clime and get up. clombe, climb'd, clamber' d. clommep, climb'd up, clamber' d up. closedes, closed. clo]>i, clothe. clupede sive cluped, called. clupep, call, calleth. me elupep so, men call so, is called so. cluppede, embraced. clupte, embraced. cluppe, call, take. cole, cool, cold. colfren, pidgepns, doves. coluer, a dove, pidgeon. The Word culver (in the same signi fication) is used even now in some of the South and East Parts of England. com, to come, came. combe, a nan ow valley, or pas sage between tzco. hills, he pas sed a dyche combe, as he leap'd the banks of a ditch. come, coming, shall come, return, come, should come, come aze, come again, return 'd again. comene, come. commune, commons, family, com. muned. compas, countess. comth, came. com]>, becometh. vor yt ne comp nogt to pe, for it becometh not thee. comynte, community, commonalty, commons. con, knoweth. condlen, candles. cotine, understand. conseylede, consulted, took couiu. set. conseyly, consult. conias, countess. King James I. used to call a Countess cuntys. Hence in one of his Letters to a certain Nobleman, who being a very beautifuU and gracefull Person was one of his great Favourites (for this Prince, notwithstanding both in his Apparell and civil Garb he seemed naturally tp affect a mujestick carelessness ', was nevertheless always strangely delighted with handsome Per. sons and fine 'Cloaths, which made some to be very bold with his Character, as if lie had been unaccountably lezed z) he writes 3 thus : come and bring the three Cuntys [for Countesses] with you. contasse, countess. contek, contest, contention, strife. conteked, contested, contend ed. contekte, contention. contesse, countess. contignat, one after another, sue. cessively. coorses, corpses, bodies. copynere, lover. Cornwalysse, Cornish. Cornwellyssebor, Cornish boar. . 1 Ham. Lcstrange's Life of K. Ch. T. p. 5. Ed. 1655. p. 21. 3 Coll. nostr. MSS. Vol. 61 . p. 210. ' See Tic Nonesuc/i Charts, coro. 636 GLOSSARY. coroment, coronation. corrupt nere, should not be cor rupted. cors, corpses, bodies. corue, cut. ne corue of, did not cut off. costenede, cost. costmous, costly. costome, customs, coueytyse, lust. couttes, tubs. countour, (coniputator rationari- us,) reckoner, accounltr. court, courts. coust, cost. coupe sive coup, known, was ca pable, would, periti, skillfull, knowing, eould, understood, knew, spoke, spake, ious skill full, couje ynow of schame, was well known for his skill in doing disgrace, sive was of suf ficient ability to do disgrace.- & oper coupe ne yse, and could not see other remedy, ne con}1*', could not, knew not. con we, cold. cowp sive cowbe, quoth, significa tion, speech, known or spoke of, could, knew hoze. pat cowp was fulwyde, that w-as spoke of all about ; that was known far and near. coyntelichc, cunning, cunningly, coyntyse, cunning. creysede, crossed. Hence, I think, came the common Word cross ed or creased, upon occasion of which it may be proper to make the following Remarks. After Christianity was esta. blished in the Empire by Con. stantine the Great, upon ' his receiving so unexspected and so great a Victory ov*r his Enemies by Virtue of the holy Cross that appear'd to him in the Air, the said Em perour not only rais'd 2 a-- bundunce of Churches and Oratories, (as Multitudes be. sides did by his great Ex. ample,) but gave Direction, that the Figure of a Cross should be put upon each of them. So that in a short time the Virtues of the Cross were every where published, and Treqlises were zcrit about it, some of which are in the Baroccian Collection of Greek MSS. and were never yef pu blished, tho' they are very worthy of it. But here among us in Britain Crosses became most frequent, when, after William the ' Conqueror's time, great Crusades zcere made into the Holy Land in behalf of the Christians u~ gainst the Infidels. Then Crossings or Creasings zcere used on all Occasions. ''I'zcas not look'd upon as enough to have the Figure of the Cross both on Jy iu Churches, ' Vide Duetorem nostrum Ilistoricum, Vol; II. p. 144. 'Coll. nostr. MbS. Aoi 08. p. 18T; Cha. GLOSSARY. 637 Chapells, and Oratories, but it zeas put also in Church. Yards and in every House, nay many Towns and Villages were built in shape of it, and it was very common to fix it in the very Streets and High ways. In and about Oxford was great Variety. There were several beautifuU ones at Osney, the Pedestal of one of which, being a fine coloured Stone, was found there in the time of the Civil Wars. That in Magdalen Parish was noted und reverenced by all Strangers that came by. Nor did any Persons zshatsoever go over Eastbridge (nozo called Mag dalen Bridge) but what paid their respects to the famous Cross of St. John Baptist's Hospital. And Ike like De. votion teas paid in those limes to a noted Cross in the zcay as we go to Heddington, a Piece of which Cross (as I took it to be) I saw lying in the High.way (tho' the rest had been destroy' d, or at least convey' d off, many Years be fore) in the Month of June 1718. This Cross was called by the name of Smallman's Cross. The Place retains the name to this duy, and 'tis here to be observ'd, that in the Year 1653. ' John Holt, Gentleman Commoner of Lai. liol-College, coming on Horse. back from Heddington was met at this Place by one Tho mas Pelham, Master of Arts and Fellow of New-College (sometimes a Captain in the Parliament Army) and both of them struggling for the way, Mr. Holt was unhors'd by Pel- ham, and so bruis'd by the suid Pelham' s Horse, which tramp. led upon his Breast and Belly, that he died about three or four days after, viz. on Oct. 23. and was buried in Magdalen Parish Church Oxon. This John Holt we oper end was a des 8;c. Eadem etiam voce alibi utitur. del, part, half, share, deal. del, grief. deide, distributed, divided, parted. del den, divided. dele, share, to divide, to part, to distribute. dele, grief deliueri, deliver, be delivered. del uol, doleful! . delyuered, delivered, vacant. delyuery, to be delivered, to delu ver. demande, demands. demayde, dismayed, frighted. demde, condemn'd. deme, judge, decree, adjudge, may judge. Vol. II. i Messes. T denied, 642 GLOSSARY. denied, judged. ' demembred, dismembred. Denchax, Danish ax. deol, dole, grief, moan, Iamenta. tion. declful, dolefull. deoluoi, dolefull. dep op, a deep oath, a great oath. departed, parted, separated. der, deer. dere, hurt, determine, dearth. dereyny, try, determine. In the Prose Part of the MS. of Ro bert of Glouc. that belongs to the Heralds Office, we have, And hit is to drede, if thow thy self shulde- derayne the ryght, lest thow be take slayne or flee, in the Advice that Gyrth gave to his Brother K. Harold, not to fight singly with Duke William. derkhede, darkness. derne, a dismal, bad, sad. deserie, disherit, disinherit. deserited sive deseritede, disherit. ed. deseristes, disherits, such as were disherited. deserites, disherits, disherited, those that were disherited. deseryted, disherited. deserytes, disherits. deseryth, disherit. desordeini, disordain. despepled sive despeplede, publish. ed, explain'd, dispers'd. despit, despyt sive despyte, dis. pight, neglect, injury, scorn, indignation, contempt. To gret despit it nom, took it in great indignation. dest, didst, 'hast done,. destance, discord, dissension. destour brynge, disturbance, dis. turbing, destruction. destrude, destroyed. destrue, destroy. desturde, destroyed. depe sive deb, did, doth, do. dej; vnel, last illness, death bed. deue, deaf. deuelen, devils. deuelnesse, devilishness. deuyte, duly, devoir, obligation, good offices. deye, die. dighte sive dight, deck'd, prepared. Qui pottas dightavit [non dihta- vit, ut Ed. Oxon.] & assas jece- rat [non jecerit, ut Ed. Oxon.] extra Polemo.Middin per Drum. mond. Hoc voce crebro utitur, Chaucerus. Vide cl. Gibsoni Notas ad Jacobi V. Christ's Kirk on the Greene, 11. -5 P- Quin Sf hodie etiam utuntur Angli septentrionales, quibus ill dight idem est quod ill dressed. Et tamen in agro Cestrlensi non aliud est to dight, quam to foule sive dirty one, id quod observavit cl. Raius. Aigae sege, worthy seat. dishereted, disherited. disparpled, spread. dispence. See spence. disserites, disherits, such as were disherited. do, make, put, placed, be placed, place, GLOSSARY. tilS place, be put, done., do out, to put out. doelle, grief, to doelle nat lite, to (sive with) no small grief. dojhtren, daughters. dolue, delved, digg'd, dug. dom sive dome,, right, justice, judgment, doom, decree. domes, judgments. done, do. doren, doors. dorre, durst. Dorsete, Dorsetshire. Dorter, daughter. Dortyk, Dorchester. dosils, spigots. dosse, douzen, twelve. Others say dose S; douse. So we have dose perys (i. e. a douzen peers), in the MS. Chron. call'd Brute of England, which is douspers in . Caxton's Chron. But elsewhere 'lis doceperys in . the MS. and douzepers in Caxton. Robert of Lrunne, in the first Part of his Chronicle, speaking of Gaul, . hath duzperis. It hight not France, be name was Galle. Galle was it calle.d pat tyme alle. J>e tuelf duzperis of ' pris Departid be lond in tuelf parties. And afterwards, in his Account of K. Arthur, he says duze pers. . In France was tuelfe lorde * sers, bat man cald duze pers. ]?ise duze pers lordes of France To Geryn of Chartres had aliance. doun, done. doung, down. doute, fear. douted sive doutede, feared. douty, fear. douwed, gave. doztren, daughters. dozze, douzen. dradde, feared. drenche, drowned, be drowned. drery, sorrowfull. dreynt sive dreynte, droreHed. dreynt hym, was drowned* driue, driven, managed^ drof, drove off. drog, drew. drou, drew, was carried, pull'd, turn'd. droughe, pull'd. drow sive drowe, -drew, belong'd, should draw. druery, modesty, sobriety. dude, put, they did, should dude" hom, did themselves, do. put themselves. druye, dry. , dryngynge, drinking. drynkhayl, drink the health, 'F. Paris. 2 Several or different. T 2 much 644 GLOSSARY. much good may the drink da you, drink merrily, &c. See queme. dryue, zeould drive, driving. dude, did. duned, bent, bowed. dunt, blow, stroke, dints, blows. dure, endure, dear. durre, dare, durst. dury, endure. durynde, during. dust, didst, reste dust chese, thou didst chose rest. dusze, douzen, twelve. dygne se, worthy see or scat, dig nity, dygte sive dygt, deck'd, arrayed, disposed, set in order, dispose of, governed, bring. dygteb, do, provide, procure. dyntes, blows. ech sive eche,' every, all, any. eche wrecchede, all misery. in ech manere, by all means. eche, encrease, enlarge. echon sive ech on, every one, each one, all. echt, all. edwyt, the scorn, the reproach, the twitting. ef, after. ef sone sive efsone, forthwith, soon after, for the future, again.' eft, after, afterwards, eft azen ward, afterwards again. • effte, pag. 367. gave, Sed potius reponerem esste, i. e. ask'd. eft sone, eftsoons, soon, soon af. ter. eigtebe, eighth, eire, circuit, air. eir,«, heirs. eib, either. eizte, oughts, goods. ek, also. eke, to ease, to kill, to rid. See - abbe. ekyn, also. i el, else. elde, age, . old age. Robert of Brunne, in the first Part of his Chronicle, speaking of King Leyl the Son of Brutus Green. shield, writelh thus ; > lie had a sone Jat hight Leyle. lie mad a toun with his conseyle, Karlel it hatte, men say. Bot Leil agayn }?at he suld dey 'Pered fast in his elde, & his lond Gouth not welde. elderne, elders, ancestors. el it, elect. ellen, ells. ellene, eleven. elnen, ells. Eluene, Elves, Dcentons. em, themselves. erne, uncle, mother's brother. They use earn for uncle now in the North. emme, pag. 337. am. Potest ta. . men Ernmam ipsam etiam, Edvardi Confessoris matrem, denotare, si per litter am E 1 Appeared. majus. GLOSSARY; 645 majusculam scribatur, Sf tunc hate erit horum verborum Ich Emme bat pe bere sententia, I am Emma that bear thee. Et tamen alibi hoc in Codice Har. leyanq Emme per litteram mi- nusculam scribitur, pro more Codicum MSS. encented, assented. encheson sive enchesun, occasion. en contre, encounter. ende, end, side, country, eyber in ¦ys ende, either to his country. endlefte, eleventh. endlef pe, eleventh. endleue, eleven, eleventh. ene, alone, only, once. ene, eve, even, evening. enes, once. enetid, evetide, eveningtide. enfermi, inclose, lock up close, for. nfy. enlargissed, enlarged. enlefte, eleventh. enlegeance, allegiance, protection, deliverance. enlene, eleventh, eleven^ en query, inquire. enqueyutance, acquaintance. enresonede, spake to, reasoned with. ensample sive en saumple, example, an example, a sample. ensent, consent. # ensentan nere, would not assent or consent. ensentede, assented, consented. ensenteb, assent. entred it sive entredit, interdict, should interdict. entreditede, interdicted. eode, went, of eode, went over. The Word yewd or y od for went, and yewing for going, is even now used in the North Parts of England. And Spencer also in his Faerie Queene (a Work in which is great Variety of old Words) speaking of Moses (L. I. Cant. X. n. 53j makes use of it thus : That done, he leads him to the highest Mount ; Such one, as that same mighty man of God, That blpud-red billowes like a walled front »On .either side disparted with his rod, Till that his army dry-foot through them yod, Dwelt fortie daies upon ; where, writ in stone With blfludy lefters by the hand of God, The bitter doome of death and balefull mone He did receive, whiles flashing fire about him shone,. er, ere, before, first, heretofore. er, .his. ered, ploughed, erinde., errand, message. ern, urn. ernde, errand. ernemorwe, .early in the morning, early on the morrow. T 3 ernest, 646 GLOSSARY. ernest, earnestness. eror, former. erst, first. er sub]>e, ever since. ertage, heritage. er banj before that, ere that. erthgrine, an earthquake. erpgry^e, '.earthquake. er to fore, here to fore. er y lome, here before, before for merly. escliekere, chess. esle, ask. esse^ ask. esseb, asketh, ask. esshe, ask. esshety tisked. esste, ask'd. est, eatest. et,, eat, even. & erne, a corner. e]>, easy\ ejste, ask'd. ettebe, eighteenth. eue Sive eve, eve, the evening. euer, however. euere, every, euere ys yuere, wherever (or zoheresoever) he was. euere ware, wheresoever, every where, where. euereft, ever after. eueremor, ever more, any more. euerich, every one, of every one, every ones. eueridel, altogether. euerne, ever, however. euerych, every, every one. every chone, every one. euerydelle, altogether, eueryldel, altogether; eueson, evening-song. euber, either. eye, eyes. Sed p. 355. pro might sive aid. eyen, eyiSf eyghe, eyes. eygtepe, eighth.. Sed pag. 318. & 436. eighteenth. eyn, eyes. eyr, grace, hast, speed. faire, fairly, faire was vndeiv fonge, was fairly or civilly re. ceived. fair hede, fair face. fale, many, fale jer, many years. fallyng, falling, failing, foolish, fare, journey, manner, go, farreste, farthest. faste, fast, presently, quickly, apace. •fawe, heartily , fain, freely , gladly. glad. fayn, willingly,, joyfully, readily. feble, pitifull, grow feeble, grow weak. feblede, weakened, grew feeble, sickened. feblesse, feebleness, weakness. febliche, feebly. fefede, feoffed, endowed. feffede, feoffed, endowed. feinteliche, faintly, coldly. fel, threw. felawe, fellow. felde, destroyed, felde adoun, fell'd down, threw down, destroy'd. fele, many. In Pierce the Ploughman's Crede, (a very rare Book, lent me by Thomas Rawlinson, Esq. that I have GLOSSARY. 647 / have spoke and made use of in my Ed. of Guil. Neu- brigensis, pag. 769, 770, 771, 772.) it is written feele, and is interpreted many in the lit- " For to occupie this leaff, which els " made an interpretation of certayne " for the better vnderstandyng of it. tie Glossary at the End of the Book, which Glossary I beg leave (for the sake of the curious) to insert here ' at large : shuld haue been vacant, I haue hard wordes vsed in this booke " Frayning, forsakyng. " Vunede, wont. " Graith, truth. 11 Erde, erth. u Leue, beleue. " God, good. u Byiapeth, deceiueth. " GAaMeryiLg, flattering. "Puple, people. 11 Cholede, suffered. " Glees, playes. u Hobelen, skipping. " Monelich, monylesse. (C Pulched, polished. . il Mightestou, mightest thou. 11 Semed, gased. " Yerne, ofte. " Queintly, strangely. " Pure, very. " Munte, went. "Bellich, well. « Tild, set. ".Hyrnes, caues. " Feele, many. u (.<.aa u a a a a a a a a a aa aa a a a aa Vy, egge. Lellich, truely. Egged, moued. Theigh, though. Loresmen, learned men. Stightle, • stay. Cherlich, gladly. Louted, bowed. Preing, praisyng. Fonden, walk. Halt, kept. . Hetes, commaundements. Sigge, say. Ho, she. Rotheren, oxon. Dreccheth, drouneth. Lacchen, catchen. Lakke, blame. Yerd, rodde. Mystre men, nedy men. Terre poughe, tar box. Pris liif, chief or young. Forgabbed, belyed. Waynen, banish. ".The residue the diligent reader shall (I trust) well ynough per. " ceiue." felle, destroy, fall,fell,throw down. tile, crafty. felle, p. 444, knowing, wily, sub- felle, skin. 1 E. Coll. nostr. MSS. Vol. 82. p. 76. T 4 fellesse, 648 GLOSSARY. fellesse, fullness, multitude. felonye sive felonie, treachery, vii. lany, felony. felwes, fellows. fende, fiend, devil. fenestre, window. fer, far, farther. ferd, host, forces. ferd sive verde, feared, was moved, enraged. ferde, fear'd, fretted, trembled, went, fared. ferden, feared, fretted. fere (comes, socius), companion, fellow, partner, fear. Ferham, Famham, ferhede, company. ferlicfy far like, far otherzeise. ferrne, far. ferrore, farther. fersse, fresh. Festamp, Feschamp. fet, feet. fette, fetch. feu, feud. Feuerer, February. fey, faith. feyntyse, faintness, dissimulation. feynyng, bickering. &)&.e\e, flatter. ]?at nolde fikelenojt, that would not flatter at all. fikeled, flattered. fikely, flattery, no kou]be of no fikely, 'was ignorant of flattery. fikelyng, flattery. file, vile. fille, thread. fdte, heart, will, fealty, fidelity, faith. fin, end. finde, find, uuele [1. unele] hii wera all thre^ vor to find* ilome. They were hard all three, for to find sometimes, sive potius for some time : vel, it was hard to find them all three for some time. fine, last, end, the end. finede with, paid to, were fined to. fir, fire, house, home. Fitz Reu, Fitz Roy. Fiz le rei, Fitz Roy. flemd sive fiemde, drove, banished, put to flight. fleme, in exile, banished, banish, drive out. flemed, banished, while he flemed was, while he was in exile. flen, flew, fled. fle]>, flee. fleu, flew, fled. fleynde, flying. fieyne, banished, exiled. fion, darts, arrows. flowe, flew, fled. fal, folk, foolish, foul, full, fooU fole, fool, foolish, fole red, foolish counsel, foolish advice. foi hardy, fool hardy. foli, fully. foi lef, fully beloved, follyche, fully. folyche, foolish. fon, foes, fond, found. fonde, contend for, try, to try, tryed, find. fondede, tryed, attempted, endea. voured. fonden, try. fong-, GLOSSARY. 649 fong, took. ble, very great, overgrown. fonge, take, receive. fordo, neglected. fongon, received. fordone, undone, destroyed. From foon, foes. the Saxon poji-boen or pon-bon, for, for, because, for (hat, till. to destroy, undoe. Hence Ro. for wat he huld \e kindam, that bert of Brunne, in the first he might hold the kingdom. Part of his Chronicle, when he forbede, forbid, sed pag. 4S4. idem1 speaks of the high Ways made quod commanded valere videtur. by Belinus, useth the Word for- forbarnd, burnt. did, instead of infringed or did fprbrend, burnt. violence to. The Passage is for broide, unmete, unmeashura. this : \ Belyn wele held his honour, & wisely was gode gouernour. He lufed pes at his myght. Pesabell men he held to right. His lond Bretayn he gode porghout, . & ilk cuntre beheld about. Beheld Je wodes, water & fen~ Np passage was maked for men. No hegh strete borgh cuntre, Ne to burgh ne cite. J?orgh myres, hilles & valeiz He made brigges & cauceiz. Hie strete fpr comon passage, Brigges ouer wateres did he stage. Jie first he mad he cald it fosse. Jorghout be lond it gos to Scpsse. It begynnes at Toteneis, & endes vnto Catheneis. < Anojer strete ordand he * At Southampton vpon be se, & goes to Wales to Seynt Dauy, j?e toun hight Menue bat tyme redy. Two, kaucez ouer be lond p brede, bat men ouer thuert in passage gede, Whan bei were mad als he ches, , He comanded ' tille all haf pes ? j To. See belovt under tille. Alle 650 GLOSSARY. Alle suld haf pes & fredam, bat in his stretes gede or cam. & if it were any of his, bat. fordid his franchise, Forfetid suld be all his )>ing, His body taken to )>e kyng. fore, fare. forene, a necessary' house, bog- house, house of ease (non, ut vulgo, house of office.) Sf idem etiam significat a chambre forene. forewarde sive fore warde, vel fore- ward, agreement, condition, co venant, promise, bargain. for fretep, very much fretteth. for lore, forlorn, lost, of no ac. count, of no signification. formest, foremost, first. for nogt, very easily, with no diffi. eulty. for nought, easily. for pyned, pining. ' for sleuthede, grew slothy. for sothe, in truth, in troth. forst, frost. fort, till, untiil. forte sive for te, untiil, till, for to. forb, forth, thenceforth. for be, because. for t)ii, for this, for which reason, of this. for thy, therefore, for. this reason, upon this account, for which rea. son, for which, because, for thy God wrech nom, for which (or therefore) they receiv'd the ven. geance of God. forto sive for to, till, untiil. for torne, torn up, rooted up, fort lo, for lo. forward, covenant, condition, bar. gain, agreement, league. for wat, provided, for which, for wat he huld pe kindam, that he might hold the kingdom. foryete, forgot. for zeue, forgave. fou, foes. foule, foully, foolishly . foule ylow, foully left, ' foully forsaken, foully deserted. fourte]>e, fourteenth. fourty nygt, fortnight, sive four. teen nights. fowe, few. francoleyn, (libertus, libertinus, municeps,)/ro»c/«w_r, afree man, ¦ a denizen. fraith, fraught. Freinss, French. fremde, strangers. Frenisse,\ French. Frensse sive Frenchmen. freo, free. fr.erene, fryers. fret, devoured. - frete, turn, move, rub. fulde, destroyed. fuled, fouled. fulle, much, felle, cut down, fill. fulled, baptized. fuljf hede, filthiness, sulliness. fur, fire, 'fiery. furde, Frenss, French, GLOSSARY. 651 furde,. tarried. fury, fiery, fury yre, red hot iron. fuyr, fiery. fustes, fists. fyl, vile, foul. fynede, ceased, found, gave, payd. fyny, cease. G. gable, high. , gadelyng, stragling, renegade, or gadere, gathered. gadery, gather. gal, howl'd sive yell'd. perinde ac si yal scribas. fylest, leavest. fylle, a thread. fyn, _o«re. fyndyng, allowance. fyne, cease, end, last. Quhen suddanly, with horribill dyn and bere From the mountans the Harpies on us fell With huge fard of wingis, and mony ane yell. Douglas JEn. Virgil. L. III. At subito horrifico lapsu de montibus adsunt Harpyae, & magnis quatiurit clangoribus alas. Vide cl, Gibsoni notas ad Drummondi Polemo-Mid. p. 8. gan, began. gare, ready, prepared, long, gare y mad, finished. garkede sive garked, prepared, ordained, made ready, arrayed, , raised, "garkede hom ouerward, , prepared themselves to go. a- broad. garkeden, got, got ready, pre pared, ordained, garkeden hem, made themselves ready. garkej?, prepare. garyson sive garysone vel geresone, idem quod warison sive wareson, id est, reward. gayne, again. ge, yea, for, o. ge leue sone. o loving son, vel (omisso o, nam Sf ge smpissime superfiuum est) loving son, vel beloved son. ge ar, ere, before, yea before. gebede, p. 335, bid [us come hi, ther.] ge bei amy, thou good friend. gedere', gathered, gef, if, gave. geftes, gifts. geld, yielded. .gelden, yield. geme, aim, care, heed, notice, Gemes, James. ge mony, a many. gef, give. gende, ends*' gended, ended, fulfilled. gengyl men; gentlemen, gent, gentle. He [Brennus] had lond inouh & rente, & i geng lemman faire & gente. Rob. of Brunne's Chron. Part I. 1 Young. gente. 652 GLOSSARY. i;enterise, gentleness, humanity, generosity; gentiles, gentlemen, gentry, per sons of distinction. gentrise, gentility, breeding, birth. gentryse, gentility, highness. gerd, rod. gerde, yard, rod, twig, szeitch. gerden, rods. gere, prepared, ready. geresone sive garyson vel garysone, idem quod wareson sive warispn, id est, reward. gerne, earnestly, greatly, vehe mently. get, yet. geb, goeth. geue, gavest. gif, gave. gileyspeke [malim, gileyspeke], a trap, an escape, a cunning trick'. ginne, engins. ginnes, engins. Giwes, Jews. sladlyche, gladly, cheerfully, glad. glad pas, joyful! pace. gle, glee, musick, joy, mirth, glad ness, chearfullness. gleyue, swords, spears. glosede, glossed. glosinde, deceitfull, flattering. glosy ug, glossing, flattering. gnowe, gnawed, cut. go, good. go adoun, should go dozen, should sink. gobettes, bitts. God, God, goods, good, goodlisome. sed p. 411. (ubi de Stephano de Bloys agitur) idem est quod eou. ragious vel valiant, absit • enim ut pro principe bpnp Stephanura, habeamus. gpdderhele, better health, sive bet. ter safety. gode, went, good, goods. Gode, God. dude hym al in Gode's grace, committed himself wholly to the grace of God. godemon, good man, p. 337. god er, better. godes, good. goe, she. gogge? joke. goinde, going. goke, yoke. golde, yielded, yield. gome, aim, consideration, notice, care, heed, disquiet. Hinc S( ¦ hodie etiam in agro Eboracensi to goam idem est quod to mind sive look at, licet in aliis Ang. lice partibus septentrionalibus to grasp sive clasp significet. Sed in Appendice (ad opus nostrum, p. 586.) man denotat, de qua significalione pratclare egit in Thesauro suo cl. Hickesius. sone [vel potius so ne] mygte hii hote nogt, perof nyme}> gome, they might or may not be so called, thereof take notice. gon, began, his exit, his death, to go, go. go«dr young. gone, to go. gonges, young. gong hede, young men. gonne, began. gonne wende, began to go. gonne GLOSSARY. 653 gonne lede, began to lead. goon, go. gonde, good, goods. goules, gules, red. gonne, began. goure, your. goxing, yelling, howling, yexing, sobbing. grace, grace,favour, pleasure, par don. gradde, cryed. grame, punishment, sorrow. graunti, grant. gred, great. grede, to cry, cry. gree, favour, grace. greithed, got. greithede, prepared. greithi, make ready. grestost, greatest. gret, much, gret word, high words. grete, grow great, counsel, great men. grete lordis hand semel habemus in Caxtoni Chronica pro simplici grete (idem plane denotante) in parte prosaica Codicis Ar. grethed, prepared, made ready. gretliche, greatly. grette, greeted. grettetst, greatest. grety, grow great.. greuede, grieved. greuyliche, grievously, cruelly, roughly. greypede sive greyped, prepared, bedeck'd, arrayed, made him ready, moved, removed, brought, should prepare, made trim. grisliche, terribly, terrible, hor. rible, dismal. grislych, horribly, terribly, ter rible. grisloker, more terrible, more dis. mal. grymyjyche, grimly, roughly. gryslych sive gryslyche, grisly, terrible, horrible, frightfull. bo gryslych gal the ssrewe bo, so terribly howl 'd the shrew then, gulpinge & best, p. 209, 210. yelping and boasting. gult? guilt. gurde, girt, girded. gut, yet. gute, yet. SK if gynne, art, engin, engins, ginns. gynnes, engins, ginns. gynnyng, beginning. gynnys, engins. gys, p. 263. [pro gyf.] if. gywel. jewel. Gywerie, Jewry, Gywes, Jews. H. habbe, have. habbet, have. habbep, have. hac, but. hail, health, hal, all, hold. halewede, consecrated. half, side, part, behalf. balpe, help'd. halt, halt, stap, holdeth, keep. eth. wat halt yt to telle longe ? quid plura? what signifies it to stay long in telling the story ? wat halt it long tale ? what fi54 GLOSSARY. what signifies a long tale ?¦ haluemon, half man. haluendel, the half part, by the half part. halwe, Saints, Saint. halwede, consecrated. halwen, Saints. halwy, consecrate, be consecrated. ham, them, am. hame, home. hamward, homewards. hamwardys, homewards, in his way homewards. han, have. hanteth, frequenteth, maketh much use of. hardi, hardly. hardelyche (serio), verily, readily. hardyssede, encouraged. hardyssy, hardiness, boldness. harenesse, hairiness. Hare well. A well so call'd from it's Antiquity, the words sig nifying the same as Old well. / am not ignorant, that others will make hare to signify the Station of an Army, as if this were the Well of the Army. But this I look upon as an absurd Exposition. Were it to be in this case regarded, it should then be writ Here well; I should, therefore, think (to note this by the by) that Harechester signifies not (as some* would have il) the camp of the Army, but old Chester (just the same signification as Alchester) or old City. At the said Harechester hath beeA>\ found old Roman Money, which the common people call Harlow, and have an old verse thus, Betwixt Herley & Harlow Is more money then any know. hareWen, arrows. harlede, hurled, whirled, har. ried, harrase.d, drove, thrust, cast. harmes, arms. harmles, armless, without arms.' harmy, do hurt or harm to. hassen, asses. hasteliche, hastily, quickly. hastyf, nice, light, hasty, rash, sudden, quick. hatte, called, was called. haubert sive hauberk (lorica), ha- bergion, a coat of mail. hauntede, haunted, frequented. haust, high. haut, high. hawteyn, haughty, stately. hay t, lively, lusty, cheerfull, haugh ty, proud. he, they, she, it, ye. for he yt wolde best loke, for it would be most suitable for him. hebbe, heave. hebbeth, have, lift, heave. hech, each, hech lyme hym oke, pag. 240. every limb of him ak'd. Sf sic mox, ech lyme hym ok, (omisso ulrobique of) every limb of him ak'd. i Coll. nostr. MSS. Vol. 88. p. 80. hecte, GLOSSARY. 655 hecle, highestj hede, hide. hefde, head. Tiefdes, heads. hefed, head. heie, high. height, was called. heire, air. hek, also. held hyr, accounted her self. helde, fidelity, failhfullness, loy. ally. helde, should hold, helde vor]?, /ie/rZ forth, maintained. heldys adde an honde, had them as holds in his hand ; held them in. his hand. heie, health, safety. heled, arrayed, covered. he led, oyled, anointed. helie, heal. helle bre the, hellish breath or smell, a most filthy smell. helm, helmet. help, help'd. hem, them, themselves, home, him, it, hence, an or hem, among the Jews, is ' them or theirs. hem ouercome, pag. 3. pro heo sive hii ouercome, i. e. they over. came, hem vnderstode, should understand themselves. hem self, themselves. hende, feat, fine, gentle, handy, handsome, kind, neat, courteous, dutiful!, liberal, unhende hath a contrary signification, i. e. unkind, Sfc. Hence 'tis used for cruel by Rob. of Brunne in the first Part of his Chronicle, where he speaks of Edwyn, K. of Northumberland's being slain in Battle by Penda, K. of the Mercians, and Cadwalyn or Ceadwalla, or Cadwal, K. of the Britains. S. Bede sais of bis Edwyn : , Sen he forsok the lawe Sarezyn, He was cristened on Pask day, At gork forsok Jpeaen lay. So god a Cristen kyng was non In pis lond als he alon. Sex hundreth gere pe date was bo, & passed seuen & tuenty mo, Whan he our Cristendom gon take. ]>e kirke of gork he did first make. Bot long are it were brought to ende He was slayn with folke vnhende. Bot saynt Oswald, bat gode man, He ended bat Edwyn bigan. Edwyn was sex gere Cristen kyng in Jbis lond here. } Since, after. . * Pagan law, heathen doctrine. pat 656 GLOSSARY. bat gere J>at he was slayn His cosyn Osri in the same ' payn, ]?e geres of Crist sex hundreth J wore & pretty gere & thre more, jie ferbe day in be Idis Of Octobir, who so it * bidis. hende, took, he Id. hendy, civil, beloved. henne, hence. hente, catch'd, pluck'd, catch, caught, took, interpos'd, struck, supported, help'd, ssiz'd, take. heo, they, he, she. heolde, allegiance. See holde. heorne, corner. hepe, help, cumulus, legio, tutba, heap. heore, here. her, here, their, old, of them, ere, before, he, it. herdom, whoredom. here, hair. here & er yhure, here and here (sive here and there) hear. here mot to maistrie, mastery be. hoves me to it, or / must do it upon account of mastery, or on account of the power you have over me. herede, praised. heried, praised. herigaus, dew-claws, spurrs. herken, hearken to, hear. heme, angle, corner. herre, here, higher. herte, hearts, heart. herte, chiefest, highest, adeo ut quidem hexte malim. herto, heart. her to, hereto. heselyche, hastily. hest, command. heste, command,, commands^ std- tute, will, commandment^ order: het, commanded, called^ order'd, was called. hete, commanded, ordered. he]>e, heathen. hethenesse, heathenism, amongst the heathens, in the heathen country. hett, commanded. hette,- commanded, was called. heued, head, heads. heueden, heads. hext sive hexte, highest, chief. Iri Hartfordshife is a Village Call'd Hexton, written Heyck- stanestune in Domesday Book. By thjs Parish paSseth the fa mous Ikenild way, and 'tis pro. bable, that this way'might occa. sion the first syllable of the place. But if the first syllable be not corrupted, (and each sylla ble continues as originally writ,) then it must (as 1 take it) de. note highest or chief, a term that may be proper enough with respect lo the place, upon ac- 1 Paganism. 8 Wore, put on. 3 Tells. count GLOSSARY. 657 count , of certain Stones fixt here that were very high, at least of a bigger Size than ordinary. Tho', after all, I should rather think, that the name really owes it's Original to the natural Stoniness of the Place, which lyes low at the bottom of very flinty Hills; especially since I find, that hextstanes signifies very stony, as well as highest or chief stones ; and so the meaning of the Word Heckstanestune, or Heyckstanestune, will be no more than a very stony town. But having never seen the Place my self, I will not enter into dispute, but will rather insert a Paper, that was given me by Mr. Whiteside, the worthy Keeper of the Ashmolean Mus&um at Oxford, and transcrib'd from a Folio MS. relating to the Mannour of Hexton. " Near " unto the Roman militarie 11 way, called Ichenild or " Ikenild Street, which pass- " eth along by this Parish, u upon a^very high hill is " to be seen, a w-arlike fort li °f great strength and an- 11 tient worke, which seemeth " to have byn, a Sommer " standing Campe of the Ro- il manes. And neer it, on " the toppe of another high " hill, called Wayting hill, a " hillock was raised up, such " as the Romans were wont Vol. II. " to reare for Souldiers " slayne, wherein many Bones " have byn found. The Sax. 11 ons, who entred this Land " Anno Domini 450. and gave " Names to most townes and 11 places, called this Fort (as is " probable) Ravensburge, which " name it yet reteineth, and is " the name of a City in Germa- " nie, zohereof the Duke ofSax- " onie beareth the title of Lord "¦ at this day. And this towne, " zohich the Brittons, perhaps, " called Hesk, of Reede which " in this place did abound, the " Saxons calledlleckstanestaae, " that is, the towne of Reede and " Stones, if not rather Hock- " stanestune, that is, the town of 11 myre and stones (for oldEng- " lishmen calle deep w?«/re Hocks) " or may be from Grates, sett " in Rivers or Waters before " Fludgates, which are called " Hecks: Neither is it unlike. " lye, but that the Danes made " some use of this fort. For " a parcell of ground neere " thereto is called Nor: Dane " furlonge to this day. Some of " these Conjectures may be true. " Th&t which follows is certein, " viz. That Offa, a Saxon l' King of the Mercians, about " Anno Domini 795.' found- " ed the Monasterie of St. " Allmns, in memorieof St. " Alban, the first maptir inEng- " land, and built the Abbey u Church in the same place u " where 658 GLOSSARY. where the Martyr was putt to death. That Sexi, an ho nourable and devout Dane (as it is in the Chartularie of the Abbie) about Anno Domini 1030. gave to the said Monasterie the towne of Heckstanestune, from which tyme during the space of 510. years the Lords Ab bots of St. Albans were Lords of this Manner called Heckstanestune, in Domes. day Booke Heyckstanes- tune, afterwards Heckstone. ston, since that Hexston, and lastly Hexton. They were also Patrons of the Church, dedicated to St. Faith, near to which is a Well, call'd St. Faith's Well. For John de Hertford, the xxiiith. Abbott, did ap. propriate the Church of Heckstonestone to the said Monasterie. The ' Cosserers of which Monasterie kept the Courts Leete and the Court Baron, and received the Rents of the Demeas. nes, and Customarie ten. nants of this Mannor. And the Sacrist had the dispos ing °f the Profitts of the Rectorie. After the Disso. lution of the said Monaste rie, King Henry the Eight, in the xxxvith. yeare of his Reigne, granted this Man. " nor to Sir Richard a Lee " k"'. who dying A°. Domini " 1575. left the same to Anne, " one of his Daughters and " Coheirs, the wife of Edw. " Sadleir Esquier, who in A0. " Domini 1579. alienated the " same to Hen. Sadler Esquier; 'c who in A0. Domini 1593. " alienated the same to Peter " Taverner, second sonne of " Richard Taverner of Wood. " eaton in Com. Oxford Esquier, " who seated himself in , Hex- " ston Bury stead, and dying " VI0 Apr. 1601. was in St. " Nicholas Chappell, peculier " to his howse, in Hexton "Church decentlye interred. " Who left the Estate to ci Francis Taverner Esq. and " he left it to Richard Ta- " verner his Sun, and Ri. " chard Taverner deposed his " Eldest Sun Edward Taver- " ner, and left it to Peter his " second Sun, who afterwards " made sum agreement with " Edward his Elder Brother, " and then Edward Taverner l- sold it to John Crosse in the "yeare 1676. and John Crosse " gave it to his Eldest Sun " John Crosse, who made his " Wife Dorothy a Joynter out " of it." heyde, hied, hastened. heye, hainously. heyme, (pag. 288.) highest, nisi Cofferers conjccil amicus. Ipse malim coffrcres sive confreres. her GLOSSARY. 659 hey (omisso me, id quod malim) legas, Sf tune erit high. heymon, an high man. heynol, hay nous, nisi heyuol, (sic enim p. 377.) id est, full high, reponas. hiegh, hielh, hasteneth. hier, higher. hight, was called. And it signifies called in the North even to this day, tho' in Cumberland to hight is to promise or vow. See behet. hii, I, they, them. him,_ them, it, her, himself, him, home, him thogte, he thought. him to loki, to look after it. hine, it. hine, servant. hinen, servants, hines. his, he, her. ho, she, whosoever, their. hoder, hither, hence, whither, he wiste neuere hoder, he knew not whither, hoder gon, his going hence, his death. hoker, scorn, peevishness, pensive. ness. hokerlyche, peevishly. hoi, hollow. holde, friendly, holde othes, oaths of Allegiance, holde opes suor, swore to hold oaths ; took oaths of Allegiance, holde opes pat men hym suore ]>oru al Enge lond, (p. 383.) that men tho. roughout all England should take oaths to hold or be firm to him. Et max, so that me suor hym holde obes in to al bat lond aboute, so that men took oaths all over the land to hold to him. adde holde o]>es ydo, had taken oaths to hold or be trueyto. holers, holdwhores, whoremong ers. holpe, help'd, assisted, abbetted. hom, them, hinV, themselves, it, her, home, to them, hom con- teini, contain themselves, behave themselves, hom ech on, every one of them, home lete arme, armed themselves. home, house. hom sulue, themselves. hond, hand, hands. honde, hands. honden, hands. hondes, hounds. hontep, hunting. hontey, hunting. hoppede, danced. hopye, hope. hor, here, their, our, cf them. hordeyne, ordained. hore, their, theirs. horsbere, horselitter. hosebonde, husband, housekeeper, husbandman. hosel, eucharist, sacrament. hosely, eucharist, sacrament. hote, command, called, be called. hotep, commandeth, command. ho that, so that. hoto, command. houede, hoved, hovered, lay. hour sive houre, our, your. hous, houses. houselle, eucharist, sacrament. howe, (quomodo) as, how, in the same manner. Item, ho, U 2 sor- 660 .GLOSSARY. sorrow, danger. hudde, hid. huden, hides. hugeliche, vehemently. hul, hill, held. huld, sive hulde, held, kept, ac count, accounted, reckoned, reck on, he held. Iruld hem, held themselves, looked upon them selves as. huldep, hold. hult, held. hundre, hundred. huntyngere, hunting-tackle. hupe, hopp'd, leapt. hupes, hipps. huppe, leap, hop. hupte, hopp'd, leap'd, leapt. hurde, heard. hure, our, hear, to hear, their, hurne, (angulus) angle, corner. huyldeth, hold. huyre, hire. hy, his. hyden, hides. hym, them, it, himself, hym ssew ede, shewed, it self. \ hyne, it. hyr, her self. hyre, lier self. hys, it. hyt ]>ogte, it was thought. I. iarmed, armed, iarmed wel aplizt, armed in good plight. [NB. i Sf y are commonly, prefix' d to old English Words, zohich, however, generally do not en. hance their signification.] sot, Ikitow. ibarnd, burnt. ibe, been. i bede, desired, bid. i bore sive ibore, bom. ibroug, brought. ibrou'zt, brought. ibrozt, brought. ic, /. ichj /. ich in i bonde, in which I am bound or hampered. iche, /. iche for sothe, I for sooth, I in truth. iche wolle, / shall, I will. iche wotte, / zcot, I know. icholle, I will, I shall. i chose sive ichose, chosen. * ichot, /; ichylle, I will. i clepud, called. i clipped, clipped. icluped, called. icome, come. icrouned, crowned, shorn, i do sive ido, done, put, fought, held, brought, made, paid, lo do, to make. idon, done: i doo, done. i dowed of, endowed with. idrawe, drawn, brought. idriue, drove, driven, brought. idryue, driven. i egged, edged. > i flemed, fled, banished, drove, put to flight. iflou, fled, dtove± banished. i fought, infighting. i foyled, corrupted, blemished, de filed. igadered, gathered. i gete, begot. ihalwed, GLOSSARY. 661 ihalwed, consecrated. iharled, handled, harry'd, har. rassed, hurld. ihasted, hastened. iholde, held, holden, accounted. of iholde, withheld from. i holpe, help'd. ihote, called, was called. ihurde, heard. ihure, hear. ihurre sive i hure, hear. i kud, known. ilad, led. ilaste sive ilast, lasted. ilate, let. ileid, laid. iler, p. 541, left, lost, sed cler, id est, cleared, in notis conjeci. ilet, left. i leue, love, believe. ileuede, left. ileye, layn. ilithered, leathered, bound. ilke sive ilk, same, very. iloked, provided for, taken care of, judged, taken care, take care, mentioned. ilome, some time, for some time, a while, sometimes. ilore, lost. im, him. imad, made, done. i me, taken. i mette, dreamed. improved, proved. in, on, ut, in, into, to, Inn, ha bitation, in wende war, were gone in, went in. inam, I am not. in an, upon. in contenance, incontinence. inel sive inelle vel i nelle, I will not. i ne wille nozt so, I will not that it should be so. in mone, in many, in more than one. inny, to inn. inome sive i nome, taken, took. i not, / know not. i not nout, / know not. inou, much, very much, great, very great, enough, very. inowe sive inow, many One, a great many, very many. Eodem sensu etiam in Jacobi V. (re^. gis Scotia;) Christ's Kirk on the Greene, p. 14. legitur anew. Men sayd, who knew his Archery That he had slain anew belyve that day. in ssryne, inshrined, in a shrine. in sygte, insight. in to sive into, over, thorough. in to al, over. inwan, in whom. in wone, accustomed. ipaid, pleased, ipaied, pleased. ipaised, appeased, discharged, ac. quitted. ipayd, paid. iplizte, plighted, promised. i presented, , being presented. ipreued, proved. i proved sive iproued, proved. ipult, put. ir, her. ire, her, iron, u 3 i redy, GLOSSARY. 662 i redy, consulting. iremewed, removed. is, his, them, it, their. isacred, consecrated. isay, saw. ise, see. ised, said. i see, see. isei sive i sei, saw. iseie. s«k>. isend, sent. isene, seen. het, set. iseth, see. isey, saw. iseye, seen. i shot, being shot. islawe, slain. is lich, like. ismite, smitten, smote. ismyte, smitten. ispoused sive i spoused, married, spoused, appris'd, acquainted. issend, confounded, ruined. issent, confounded, destroy'd. issote, shot. issriue, confess'd, confess. issryned, inshrined. isuore, sworn. it, them. it ne of thozte nozt, thought no. thing of it.. itake, taken. ithouzt, thoughts, thought. itold, told, related. i tourned, returned. justice of heire, Justice in Eyre, Justice Itinerant. justicerie, the justices, the justi ciary. justize, Justices. iwar, aware. iweiued, (p. 526.) waved, astray. ed. nisi putes, idem quod iwiued potius valere. iwend, gone, went. iwent, directed, carried. i werried, warred upon, robbed, worried. iwis, certe, certainly. iwite, know. iwiued, wived, married. i won sive iwon, plenty, remedy, luck, opportunity. iwoned, accustomed. iwonne, got, won. iworred, warred. iwounded, wounded. iwrite, written, iwust, known, kept. iwuste, knew, wist. i yene, given. i yolde, yielding. iziue, given. izolde, yielded. K. kalangede, challenged, accused. keien, keys. kemelyng, a comeling, one newly come. In .the same manner as zee say a youngling, the same as the Northern folk call a yon- ker. The Word kemelyng is writ comlyng inRob. of Brunne's Chron. For thus he : Now haf I taken our most fo, pat has vs wakned many wo. bis GLOSSARY. 663 pis is Je honde, wo mot him be, De capcione Jat neuer of vs had pite. Hengisti. Sir erle bis honde, Jis comlyng, On my halue present him be kyng, And say his enmy is ouercomen. kende. See kynde. wymmen ne kepte of, women kendeliche, kindly. took no care of, sive women had kene, keen, sharp. no regard for. kenede, kennel'd. kerf out, carved out, cut out. Kent ers, Kentish men. kernelles, horn-works, corners or kepte, cared, kepte of, cared for. holes in battlements. A day the Romeyns made sacrifise, In ]ier temple als was ber wise, Right in Jer solempnite De bello in- Biseged Je Bretons per cite. 'ne0rs f™l Jie Romeyns herd noys & cri, ciepedoth. & cried has armes alle on hii, & did bam out in to jie felde, Boldly on Jam self gan ' belde, & fauht with Je Bretpns fast, Bpt Je Romeyns rpute to brast. For Allet side & his meigne geide alle doun, & mot not fle. Alle Jat were on Jat partie Ascaped bi strete no stie. 1 Gallus sawe per side gede doun, Bi tyme he fled vnto be toun, & Je gates after Jam 3 sperd, To kirnels & tp walles ferd, & tp Je tpures vp on hie, & did be Bretons hald Jam o drie. 1 Build. 2 Cum itaque sibi [Asclepiodoto] cessisset victoria,. Livins Gallus, AUecti collega, residues Romanos convocavit in urbe, clausisque januis, turres ac ceteras municiones munivit, cogitabatque sic Asclepiodoto resistere, vel iminentcm necem vitare Galfr. Mon. ut Codex se habet MS. quem mihi dono dedit amicise. Gravesius. 3 Shut, ab Angl. Sax. j-pajirian, claudere, obdere. u 4 Robert 6'dl GLOSSARY. Robert of Brunne's Chron. in had made a Wall against the which Chronicle afterwards, Picts, he zvrites thus, in the giving an account of the Ro- speech that the Romans made to mans leaving the Isle, after they Ihe Britains : We haf closed Jer most nede was; & if ge defend wele Jat pas With archers & with 'magnels, & kepe wele Je kirnels, Jer may ge boje schote & cast, Waxes bold, & fende gow fast. Jinkes gour fadres wan franchise. Be ge no more in ojer sei-uise, Bot frely lyf to gour lyues ende. We wille' fro gow for euer wende. ration, relations, line, the right kest, cast. keuer sive keuere, recover. keuerede, recovered, got. keuery, recover. keuerynge, recovering, recovery. keyen, keys. kne, degree. knigt sive knizt, knight, souldier. knynt, knights. komelynges Sf komlynges, come- lings, eo modo quo & young lings. See kemelyng. .konne, know, can, can do. konne Je by se, canst see to thy self, canst take care of thy self. konnyng, knowledge, skill. kouje, understood, understand, could, speak. kowje, could, knew. koynte, cunning. koyntise, cunning. kudde, made known, shew'.d, . kun, kyn. kunde, kind, of the same kind, natural, right, rightfull, gene- line, knnde londe, native coun try. kundede sive kun dede, kinship, manhood, humanity, kindness, natural affection, right, near ness. kundelyche, kindly. kundere, more rightfull, nearer of kin. kunne, kin, birth, generation. kunneth, cannot. kunrede, kindred. kuthe,, shew, make known. kyeth, make known. kyn, king. kynde sive kende, kind, kin, bloud, right, natural, rightfull,family, line, relation. kyndelich, kindly, agreeable. kyndhede, kindness. . kynedom, kingdom, reign. kyng, (pag. 27.) queen, governess. kyngt, knight. kyngtes, knights. 1 See under the Word mangenel. kyntes, GLOSSARY. 665 kyntes, knights. kypte,, caught, drew out. lackes, lackeys, companions. lad, carried, translated. ladde, led, diew, brought. lafte, was left. lance ys, lances. landren, ladders. large, bountifull. largeour, more bountifull. largylyche, largely. lasse, less. laste, least, lasted. lat, let. late, let, defect, late in, let in. latej, let. lawe, laws. lechecraft, physick. leches, physicians. lechys, physicians. ledde, laid. lede, let, bring, carry, laid. lef, loved, beloved. lefmen, lemans. lefmon, leman, concubine,. lefte, were left. legge, lay. lek, leeks. lem, ray. Ieme, ray, &'gAtf, stream, bright ness. Iemman, whore. lende, leaned, loyns. lene, lend. leng, longer. leom, &g/i*, flame, ray, stream, brightness. lepes, /epe*, weels, baskets. • lere,, team, ZeacA, embrace, loss. lerni, learn. les, false, lost. lese, Zees, pasture, pastures, loose. lesed, foose #, leave it. lesen, lees, commons, pastures. le sej sive lesej, looseth. lesnesse, absolution. lesse, , loose. lesynge, a lye. lesyt, looseth. let, ordered, commanded, left, per mitted, hom let hor wille, let them have their will, let someni, let summon, let be summoned, ordered (or commanded) to be summoned, let bringe, let be brought, brought; put, threw. lete, left, let, shed, would leave. lete take, took, lete do, let put. lether, vile, cruel, wicked. lette, let, hinder. leue, beloved,loving,believe, grant, love, leave, leue frende, Zo»-v ing friends. Ab Ang. Sax. leop, leopa, quod respondet Runico MBI> Gothico AinBA. ITivWA, tlF hl^F/K RIHIh Vi-tlKi. HHI tlFtlA (LhVH± UBA WltlLYl WK. Dulfr ug Ulfr risdu stino disi uftir Osmut liba filaga sin. Dulfr Sf Ulfr lapidem hunc posuerunt Osniuto charissimo suo socio, non (cum Wormio) vita; socio, sicut nos docuit cl. Gibsonus in notis ad Drummondi Polemp-Middin. p. 6. leued, 666 GLOSSARY. leued, left, deferr'd, ceas'd. leuede, liked, believed, left, lady, loved, lived, leave, were left. leuedy, lady, mistress. leued) s, ladies. leuer, lever, rather. leuere, lever, rather, belter, more acceptable. leuest, levest, most lever, most ac. cepluble, most desired, list sive most list, lovest, believest. leueth, leaveth, omitteth, neglect. eth. lewed, lay. lewede, lay, lay-man, lay.men. leygt, lightning. lay, aballud. libbe, live. Jigge, lye, lying. lihe, laugh. limes, limbs. lite, little. lith, lyeth. lithe, grant. litherhede, vileness, wickedness. Jitblyche, easy. Hue, lives, life. liuerede, red. lizt, light, ali/.t red, a light coun. sei, a little counsel. liztliche, lightly, easily. logher, lower. loke, regard, lockt. to loke, to look after. loked, examined. lokede, looked, exspected, saw to, took notice of, took care. lofci, consider. lokinge, care, looking, notice, ani madversion, cognizance, deter mination. loky, look. lokyng, looking. lokynge, cognizance, arbitration. lomb sive lombe, lambs. lome, frequently. Lond reis, Londoners. longe, longer. loos, praise, commendation. lordlynges, lords, utraque voce uti- tur auctor noster in eadem signi.. ficatione. lore, learning, discipline, doctrine, loose, lost, should loose, he should loose. loren, lost. Loruerd, Lord. los, praise, commendation. loth, lot. lothe, hated, loathsome. lou, laughed. loudinges, lordings sive lordlings, lords. love sive loue, relict, widow. louerd, lord, louerd suyken, Lords fraytours, treacherous lords, louerdinges, lords. Loundreis, Londoners. low, laughed. lowe, laugh'd. lowg, laugh'd. lowgh, laughing. lowtede, bowed. loze, he should loose. Lud. The Month of Lud or Lude is mentioned p. 569, 571. This was March, it be- ing on St. Gregory's day, or the lith. of that Month, on which Henry, Son of Richard K. of the Romans, was mur dered at High Mass in the Morn- GLOSSARY 667 Morning at Viterbium, as is declared by our Author pag. 571. luft, loft, left. lure, (illicium) allurement. luste, listed, pleased. lute, little, little while, a little while, a little, few. lute wule, a little while. Intel, little. lujer sive lujere, miserable, cruel, bitter, vile, wicked, ill, bad, great, swift, devilish, vilely, hard, base, wickedly, lujer mode, unmerciful temper, lu jer ynou, badly enough, sadly enough, lujer dede, vile deeds, wicked actions. lujeren, leathers, slings. lujerhede sive lujer hede, vileness, cruelty, wickedness, tyranny, villany. luthernesse, vileness, cruelty, hard ness. Injur,, bad, vile, cruel. lutt, little. lyflode, livelyhood. lygge, lye. 'yggynge, lying. lyghe, laugh. lyghyng, laughing. tyStyng; lightning. lymes, limbs. lynne ssete, linnen sheet. lyste, (Fag. 279.) mirth. lyther lyf, idle life. lyue, (pag. 433.) live sive life. Nee tamen diffiteor, quin hic lyne aliquando potius legi de. bere censuerim, ut to ryte lyne sit of the right line. Sed lyue lubenter retineo, ut sit of right life. lyuede, believed. lyuere, lever, rather, him was ly- uere, he had rather. M. mace, club. made, make. magnales, catapultas, warlike en. gins. magrei, maugre, in spight. mahone, my God, or my Gods. maine, power. maistrie, mastery. man, men. manassynge, admonition, threat. ning, menacing. maner, manner, the maner deuel- ness, in a manner the devilish. ness, the devilish manner. mangenel. tormentum, catapulta belli ca, mangonel, engin. An old-fashioned Sling, (saith Cot- grave, voc. mangonneau) or Engine, whereout stones, old yron, and great arrowes were violently darted. Cotgrave hath very rightly made use of the Word Sling as well as Engine. Some of * the most ancient Military Weapons were Slings. Our Ancestors the Britain?. were expert in them. After Slings came catapulta?, batter ing Rams, and other Engins. 1 Coll. nostr. MSs- Vol. 102. p. 4. The 668 GLOSSARY. The Ancients used tp express such Weappns on the Monu ments of famous Souldiers. And in this they had ' the Jews for Examples. Thus Si mon Maccabaius, High Priest and Governour of the Jews, raised ' a most noble Monu ment to the memory of his Father, Mother and Brethren, on which were many cunning Devices, and by it seven Py ramids, and divers Column? or Pillars, adprned with their Armour. This stately, high Monument continued many Ages, and may put us in mind of the Roman Co lumns, some of which have been discovered under ground, and of the Egyptian Py ramids. 'Twas from the Jews adorning the Monuments of their Heroes with Military Instruments, that even the Christians put up Pennons and other Ensigns of Ho nour in Churches, tho' the most common (and indeed the most honourable) Banner on our Monuments befere the Dissplution of Religious Houses was a Cross, which, however, hath since that time been generally discontinued as Po pish and Superstitious. And yet why more Popish and Superstitious in this Case, than to sign Infants with the Cross at the time of their Bap. tism, which is still practis'd (and that very laudahly) among us ? Meihinks Cranmer's Mo. nument by Balliol College* had been never- a whit the less honourable had -a Cross been put on it, such a one as we see on some old (tho' - other. 1 wise very plain) stones- 'id some Church- Yards. ¦ Especial. ly since he is allow'd to have been a Martyr, and to have died for the true Christian Religion. If Crosses were found at Stone. henge on any of the Stones, they might argue the Monu ment to be Christian. But that is a Subject I wave at present, and had. rather ask another Ques tion, ¦ and that is, Why is it more Popish and Superstitions to put Crosses on. the Monuments and Grave Stones of > devout good People, such as have been Sufferers for the Christian Faith and for their Honesty, than to have them put on our common Abcedariums for the use of Chil dren, a Thing that hath been always used, and was never pre- tended to be laid aside by any of our Reformers ? Nay our Reformers formerly had Crosses put at the Beginning of their printed Bibles, notwithstanding that Custom hath been left off 1 I. Maccah. XIII. 27. many GLOSSARY 669 many Years. And not only in Bibles, but in other Books (by no means Popish) there were likewise put Crosses, particularly in such Books as any way treated of Martyrdom, and such Signs were, therefore, altogether pro per for Books printed in red Letters, especially if they related to the Sufferings of godly Men, and the Joy and Comfort of Mind that honest Men find for their Integrity, notwithstand. ing the Efforts of malicious Ene. mies. A Cross, therefore, would have been very becoming an ex. cellent (but wonderfully scarce Sermon) written, preached and published by the late Mr. Josias How of Trinity College Ox.' ford, concerning which i have written the following note in one of my MSS. '•' Yesterday [Jan. " 14. 1723.] I purchased out of " the late Dr. Charlett's Study a " Sermon in Quarto (of fourty " Pages) upon Psal. 4. 7. It " cost Dr. Charlett five shillings, " as himself formerly told me 2. " It is printed in red Letters, " and is one of the greatest " Rarities I ever saw. The " Title Page is wanting, and ': perhaps" there never was any. "The Author was Mr. Josias " How, Fellpw of Trinity Col- " lege Oxon. a very great Ca- " valier and Loyalist, and a " most ingenious Man. It was " preached before K. Charles I. " at Christ-Church, and was " printed an. 1644. or there- " abouts, as Mr. Wood ob- " serves ', tho' he could never " see the Sermon. I have been " well assured, that this Sermon " was printed at Oxford at Lich- " field's Press, and that there " were only thirty Copies print- " cd, that K. Charles I. order- " ed it himself to be printed in " red Letters, (tho' Mr. How " being against printing Ills Ser- " mons, had before told his " Friends, that if ever he print- " ed any Sermon, it should be " in red Letters) and that Lich. " field, being then printing Arch- " bishop Usher's Ed. of Igna- " tius's Epistles, made use of " the very same Ink that he did " in Ignatius, where is a great " deal of red Letter. The Times " being troublesome and in Con, " fusion and very bloudy, a " red Letter was proper, and " 'tis very probable, that the " Sermon being much talk'd of " then, as it hath been since, to " secure both himself and the " Printer the better, Mr. How " might leave out the Title " Page. Mr. Wood was well ac- " quainted with this Mr. How, " and yet for all that he could " neither see this Sermon, 1 ColLnostr. MSS. Vol. 102. p. 8. 2 MSS. nostr. Coll. Vol. 51. p. 176. 3Ath. Oxon. Vol. II. col. 737. •'¦' nor 670 GLOSSARY. " nor get a good clear account " of it, which makes me think, " that Mr. How had no Copy " of it by him, when Mr. Wood " became acquainted with him. " I have heard old Mr. Crosley, " an Oxford Bppkseller (whp " died some Years agoe at Great " Milton, having left off his " Trade some time before he " died) say more than once, " (upon my asking him,) that " he once had this Sermon in " red Letters, but he could not " tell who bought it. It maybe " 'tis this very Copy that I now " have. As for Mr. How, (who " took the Degree of Bach, of " Divin. July 10. 1646. being " created among many others, " that had the honour of Degrees " conferr'd on them by Creation " that Year, for their laudable " Sermons before the King, " Court, and Parliament, at " Oxon. preached by all of " them some time before,) he " was put out of his Fellowship " by the Parliamentarian Visi- " tors, an. 1648. was restored in " 1660. (tho' » he gained no- " thing by his Sufferings, as " many other honest Cavaliers " did nothing by theirs) lived '•' to a great Age, and died Fel. " low of the College some few u Years agoe, but lived so re- " tircdly in the latter Part of " his Life, that he rarely came " abroad, so that I could never " see him, thn' I have pften " much desired tp have a sight " pf him." mangenels, catapultm bellicte, Ifc. mangnelles, (catapultae,) warlike engins, Sic. manhede, manhood, homage. manne, many, man's, men's. mannes, men's. mannus, men's. manqualyn, pestilence. manquellyng, mankilling, murther. mansinge sive mansing, excommu. nication, cursing, excommuni. eating. manslagt, murder, murders, man. slaughters. mantles, cloaks. many, might, forces. marbresten, marble. stone. Marc, the March, the Marches. March, Marches. mare, morrow, sed p. 486. ni fal- lor, idem quod more sive greater valet, ut & the mare pf hor rugge sit, and the greater part of their reer. martreden, martyred. mase sive masse, amusement, folly, vanity, maze, mass, lump. massen, masses, mass. masson, masse. mastlyng, (p. 87.) shining Brass, Copper. Hine Skinnerus : " Mastling, exp. Shining, nes- " cio an ab A. S. Masj-lenn, " Belg. Sf Teut. Messing, " AEs, Orichalchum, q. d. " ins tar JEris seu Orichalci Wood, loc, cit. " fulgent, GLOSSARY. 671 a ful gens, Maerlehn Sf Mes- " sing videntur orta a Lat. " Massa, quia sc. Metallum " hoc in magnas Massas fun. " ditur." Nee quidem duhi- um est, quin ab Angl. S. Maer- lenn ortum duxerit, de qua voce sic Somnerus : " Masr- " lenn. -F!s, aurichalcum. lat- " tin or copper mettal, mest- " lin. Kiliano, messing." Ex hujusmodi met alio (mastlyng vncato, haud longe sane diverso ab Mo, quod vs Corinthium appellabant anti- quitus) ni fallor, sunt ima gines binw antiqiia>r una nimi- rum Isidis, altera Osiridis, penes amicum nostrum Joan- nem Murraium, Londinen- sem. Quarum idcirco men. tionem facere visum est, quia, ut mihi retulit ipse Murrains (easdem enim nunquam vidi) satis sunt elegantes, scriniis. que etiam hominum doctissi. morum, Sf his in rebus versa. tissimorum, dignissimis. Sed non mirandum est, Murraium has imagines sibi comparasse, quum Sf alia antiquitatis mo. numenta quamplurima sum- ma cum diligentia muximis. que sumptibus (nam, id quod in laudem ipsius summam di- cendum esse existimo, philo. sophorum veterum ad instar, divilias, quas vocant, sper- nere solet) coacervaverit, alia etiam, ^si fata siverint, con- gesturus. Atque inter hmc xstfifattt Sf Epistola quadam E- lizabetha regina, propria sua ipsius manu scripta, numeranda est, quam, dum Robertum no strum edo, e musio Arthuri Charletti, Aulw magna; Univer- sitatis, ab Alurcdo magno fun- data;, deinde u Willielmo de Deorham, ejusdem quondam socio ', beneficiis ornatw, ma- gistri sive prafecti, nuper de- functi, redemit. Quam' quidem Epistolam hic tandem juris fa ctum publici, prweipue quum in Camdeni edilione nostra Eli zabeths (nam tunc ad manus non erat) neutiquam compa- reat ; idque etiam adfidem apo graph!, quod meam in gratiam ex Reginie aulographo Geofgius Holmes (permittente Murrqiof vrr pereruditus, Sf Archivorum in Turri Londinensi custos (quem appellant) Deputatus, exscripsit. " Elizabeta, Dei gratia, An- " glia, Franciw, Hibernian Re- " gina, fidei Defensor, Sfc. Se- " renissimo Principi D. Fride. " rico secundo, Dania, Norve. " gia, Golthorum Sf Vandalo. " rum Regi, Slesvici, Holsatia; " Sf Dithmersim Duci, Comiti " in Ohlenburgh Sf Delmen- " horst, Sfc. fratri consangui- " neo, Sf autico nostro churissi- " mo, Salutem, et omnium re- " rum prosper arum felicissimum " incrementum. Serenissime " princeps, f rater consangui- lJ. Kossi Hist, regum AngUtr, p. 101. nee 672 GLOSSARY. tl nee el amice cliarissime, ut " omnibus plane constat, quam " mirabili modo, et exemplo " z're omni antegressa memo- 11 ria inaudito, posteritati ve. " ro vix credibili, superiori cl anno Claris simm memorial " princeps consanguineus no. " sfer D. Henricus, conjunx " nuper Serenissima Regina " Maria, prasentis Scotia Re- " gina, Sororis nostra Charis. " sima, crude liter trucidatus li fuit ; Ua paucis dubium est, " C*« verum est, quod omnium ci fere sermo constanter asse- " verot,) quin Jacobus Comes '' Bothwallus, quem vestra " Serenitatis mandato in Dania " custodia detineri accepimus, " 27/t'us nefandi Sceleris et au. " fAor ef actor fuer it. " //oc ' facimus privati in prin. " cipem subditi in sujum Do. " minum, re execrabile, exem. " p/o intollerabile plane existit " cunctis quidem hominibus, li pracipue vero Regibus, quo- " /-«./» Majestutem ratio vult, " ef Dews ?p$e sacrosanctam " ewe jubet, imprimis autem " ef seorsum nobis ipsis, qui. (i bus cum ille Princeps san. " '• guine et propinquo et Regio il fuit conjunctissimus. Itaque, " tij bataille rrujvrt bigan " On Heyman pay pep brpoji Sat iclepeb pa.y Dajiban " Op htm com pe gobe Bnuigt p pay pe pjij-e man <( Dae love/ib pay in Gngelanb arc ich eu telle can. " And again, Ajxep Bjinit hiy oj?e name he clepeb hit Bjiu- " tame; " The Land was Brutain call'd from Brute's own name. . " One Woman caus'd the Trojan War, whose name " Was Helen, Dardan Prince of noble fame " Was Ancestor to Brute first British King, " From whom the Stemmes of British Princes spring. " In Comm. " ad Beds " Hist. Eccl. " Lib. 1. After I had seen this Passage in Langhorne, I concluded, that there was a MS. of Rob. of Glouc. in Trin. Coll. Li. .brary at Cambridge, and writ about it to my very learned and truly worthy Friend Mr. Thomas Baker of St. John's Coll. in that University, who returned me soon after this very kind Answer in a Letter dated Jan. 9th. 1723. " Having been confin'd to " my Chamber by a slight In. " disposition for some days, " I employ'd two Friends lo " make a search for the " Rhythms in Saxon Charaes " ters ; but without success} " As soon as 1 came abroad, " / went my self to make a " stricter search, by turning " their new Catalogue of " MSS. and. every Book, " where I thought, with any " probability they might be " met with; and yet to no " purpose. I am pretty con- ' See Rob. of Glouc. p. 9, 10, 82. x 3 fidenty 678 GLOSSARY. " fident, there can be no such " Booic there ; or if it be, it " must be only some Fragment, "far so large a Volume as " Rob. of Gloucester, could not " easily be hid. The Rhyth- " mi Saxonici [num. 486. 17. " in the Oxford Catalogue'] " which I took, to have been " it, are of a different na- " ture. But these Rhythms (t being quoted by Mr. Whe- " lock (in his Comment upon " Bede p. lb.) from whom " Mr. Langhorn seems to " have borrow'd 'em, his au- " thority is good, and may be " depended on. med, mood, meadows, mead'.' mede, reward, meads, meadows. medep, meadows. medlede, mixed. me int, mine, my. mekehede, meekness. meketh, humbleth. mek hede, meekness. mene, mention, moan, bemoan. menessolde, men should not. raenestral, a fidler.. > meneth of, maketh mention of. - mengede, . mingled. , menison, the leprosy. , menne, mens', men. men quellares, men-killers. menye, company, min. meok hede, meekness. Mer, Mayor, . , merci, mercy, amercement. Mere, Mayor. inergore, merrier. mesanntre, misadventure. meschenes, mischances^ mesel, a leaper. meseles, leapers. , meseyse, diseased, misease, uneasi. ness, ill usage. mest sive meste, most, biggest, greatest, the greatest, most of all. meste del sive mestdel, vel messte. del, greatest part, the greatest part, mest foi, the greatest fool. mete, feast, meeting^ meat. mete les, meatless, without meat. mette, dream'd, meant, designed, met. mette hem Sf mette hom, met one another. nieueh, moveth. meuske, mercy. ineuj>, mouth. meyne, a multitude, power, main, might. mid, with. middelerd, world. Midewinter, Christmass. The Saxons call'd it Mibjhnteri and Mibban pin ene, because the Nativity of our Saviour hhp. pens in the middle, or middesl of Winter. They also ¦Us'd ano. ther Word for Christmass, and that was gehul, ' gehol, or geol. Hence Robert of Brunne in his Chronicle, speaking of King Arthur's keeping Christmass day at York, writes thus : On gole day mad he feste, With many barons of his geste. Sfc. Hence also in the North of England they call Christmass, even GLOSSARY. 679 even to this day, Ule, Yule, or Youle. Concerning the Origi. nal of the Ward 7S shall refer to what I have said in pag. 116. of the 2d. Volume of Le. land's Itinerary, and, instead of saying more about that Par ticular, shall here insert a note about a very odd Custom in the North, as it is printed by Thomas Blount, Esq. a very curious Gentlem. (whose Books I would recommend, as hav ing all of them several Things very pretty, entertaining and curious) in his Dictionary in terpreting hard English Words. uJn Yorkshire" (saith * he) " and our Northern parts " they have an old Custom, " after Sermon or Service on " Christmass day, the people " will, even in the Churches, " cry Ule, Ule, as a token of " rejoycing, and the common " sort run about the streets a ' singing Ule, Ule , Ule, Ule, " Three Puddings in a Pule, " Crack nuts and cry Ule. But tho' I ' shall say nothing more here about Christmass, yet it may not be improper to note, that, as Christmass teas. formerly all over Britain called gehul or Yule, so there was *unother Fes. thai, namely the first of August, being St, Peter ad vincula, which we commonly stile Lammas day (not from Tenants bringing live Lambs into the Church at High Mass on that day, as some would have it, zehence 'tis written Lambes day in some MSS. Notes in the Kalendar of. the Prymer of Salisbury, a curious Book given 3 me by the learn. ed Mr. Graves, but from the Saxon Hlapnajrre *, \i. e. Loaf Masse or Bread-Masse, . so named '>, as a Feast of Thanks. giving to God for the first fruits of the Corn, and seems to have been observed zoith bread of new wheat, and therefore in some Parts of England, and even in some near Oxford, the Tenants are bound to bring in wheat of that Year to their Lord, on or before the first of August) that was called the Gule of August. This some make to be a Cor. ruption of the Brittish Word, Gwyl Awst, signifying the Feast of August. But for my own Part, I do not look upon it as originally a Brittish Expres. sion ^but Latin, being really the ' Voc. Ule. ' Coll. nostr. MSS. Pol. )02. p. 43. a See my Preface to this Work, $). Ji/. * Somner's Saxon Diet, in voce. => Blount's Dictionary interpreting hard Words, voc. Lammas day. v 4 same 680 GLOSSARY. same with Gula Augusti, that occurrs very frequently in old Writings, both of our own and other Countries. Hence Du , Fresne ', " Gula Augusti, " I- " nitium mensis Augusti. Le " Gule d' August, in Statuto " Edw. III. an. 31. cap. 14. " Averagium astivale fieri de. " bet inter Hokedai Sf gulam " Augusti. Utitur Willelmus " Armoricus in Philippo Augus- " to an. 1219." And Sir Hen. ry Spelman1: " Gula Augusti " saspe obvenit in membranis an. " tiquis (praesertim forensibus) " pro festo S, Petri ad vincula : " quod in ipsis Calendis Augusti " celebratur." This Word is several times mentioned in the Statute of the 27. of Edw. the third's Reign, stat. 3. cap. uni- co, as is noted by Dr. Cowell3. Now were gule here, and in other Places, nothing but Feast, why were not other Feasts, or Festivals, also so call'd, Us the Gule of St. Luke, the Gule of St. John, the Gule of St. Andrew, Sfc ? Du Fresne ¦ gizies 4 an Instance from Anti. quit.y, that Gula flu vii zeas the Mouth of a River. " Gula "fluvii," saith 'he, " Ostium "per quod in mare Suit, Char- " ta fundationis Abbatias Orbis- *' terii an. 1007. Usque ad tor. " rentem Illicon, qui defluit per " gulam de Doe tis in mare." Hence some would fain make us believe, that the first of Au gust was, for that reason, so call'd, gula, they say, being the Entrance of any Thing. But here the same • Question arises again (allowing it to be so) why then are not the Beginnings of other Months, &c. distinguish'd in the same manner, Os the Gule of January, the Gule of February, Sfc? For my own Part, I will not pretend to any new Conjec tures, or new reasons, about the Name, but do willingly con. curr with Dr. Cowell, Sir Hen. ry Spelman, and divers other great Men, who ascribe the Original of it to a very memo. ruble Accident, in which God's great Mercy was shew'd in a very extraordinary manner to a virtuous young Lady, who was cured of a very dangerous Dis. temper, a Quinsie, in her Throat by kissing the Chains of Saint Peter. The Passage (us 'tis in Dr. Cowell) is this : " Why it " should be called the Gule of " August, / cannot otherwise " conjecture, but that il com- " meth of the Latine (gula) or " the French (gueule) the throat. " The reason of my conjecture " is in Durand's Rationale diviuo. " rum 1.7. ca. de festo SanctiPetri " ad vincula, zeho saith, that one ' Gloss. mtdiiB of inf. Lat. voc. Gula Augusti. a Gloss, in voce. 3 In his Interpre ts, voc, Gule of August. 4 Gloss, in voc. « Quiri- GLOSSARY. 681 " Quirinus a Tribune, having a " Daughter, that had a disease " in her throat, went to Alex- " ander then Pope of Rome, " the Sixth from Saint Peter, " and desired of him to bor- " row, or see the chaines that '* Saint Peter was chained with " under Nero : which request " obtained, his said Daughter " kissing the said chaine, was fi cured, of her disease, and " Quirinus with his family was li baptized. Tunc dictus Alex- " ander papa (saith Durand) " hoc festum in Kalendis Augusti " celebrandum instituit, & in ho- " norem beati Petri Ecclesiam in " urbe fabricavit, ubi vincula " ipsa reposuit, & ad vincula no- "minayit; & Kalendis Augusti < il dedicavit. In qua festivitate, f' populus illic ipsa vincula hodie " osculatur. So that this day " beeing before called onely the " Kalends of August, was up- " on this occasion afterwards " tearmed indifferently, either " of the instrument that wrought " this miracle, St. Peter's day " ad vincula, or of that part of " the maiden whereon the miracle *' teas wrought, the Gule of Au. " gust." I make no question, but this famous Accident was formerly (before the pulling down and making havock of the Religious Houses, a. most dismal Thing) much . talk'd of, and mentioned too annually in the Sermons and Homilies up. orr the Feast of St. Peter ad vincula, among us, in Eng. land, tho' it be now quite for got. It was usual, in those times, to mention other things of that kind in their Sermons and Homilies. Nay they did not mention such things only in their Sermons and. Homilies, but oftentimes in their T'hanks- giving Prayers. It were to be wish'd this Custom had not been broke off. People would by that means have- been better able to tell, who were the Founders of their Churches, and to what Saints they were dedicated. But, it seems, Mortuary Bills (the nalura of which may be learned from my Preface to The An tiquities of Glastonbury,^ and Prones, are now neglected as altogether Popish. Indeed the name of Prone appears strange to most People, notwithstand. ing it be nothing but Pero. ratio. Cotgrave ' describes it thus : " Prone ': The publica- il tion made, or notice given, by " a Priest unto hjs Parishioners " (when Service is almost end. " ed) of the holy dayes, and " fasting dayes in the weeke "following; of goods lost, or " strayed; of such as desire tobe " relieued,orprayedfor; of Banes " of Matrimonie ; or of any such " thing, besides their prayers, fit 1 In his French D'ct. "for 682 GLOSSARY " for them to understand." In truth these Prones were of the same nature with what zee call bidding the Prayers, and were pronounced at the End of the Publick Prayers immediately before the Sermons or Homi. Ues. , One of these Prones was lately lent me by my Friend Mr. James West of Balliol College. It is writ on oiie side of a Quarter, of a Sheet of Paper, on the other side of which is the Form of a Con. fession. Both are seruices is ye better sustent and holdyn vp; And for alle yos, yl pays yaire tendyngys to holy kyrke. And allso ze schalle pray specially for ye kynge, ye qwene, w* alle ye lordes of yis reme, y' God of hys mercy gyfe yaym grace, so ye reme -for to rewle, yl hit may be plesyng to hym, saluacion to ye reme, & profet to ye commyns. Also ze pray specially for alle our parichons qweresumeuer yai be stad on lond or on water, yl God of hys mercy saue hom fro alle aduersites & perelle. And yos y* bene in gpd lyfe & gede heie Gpd hold hom long yer in. And yos yl bene in det, or 4 dely syn, God send hom sone out thorzt our prayers. Also ze pray specially for all ye seke of yu pariche, or any oyer, y' God of hys mercy gyfe yaym grace of amendment, as best is for ye life & yc saule. Also ze pray specially for alle wemen, y< bene bonden wth chyld of ys 1 E Coll. nostr. MSS. Vol. 102. p. 15. « A stroke is drawn through I proiane bp the same hand. I is for le. = Another hand hath struck these three Words out. « Deadly, , > pariche, GLOSSARY. 68S pariche, yl God for hys mercy send yc wemen tp be delyuert, ye chylder ryzt shap & Cristyndome, -ye wemen purificacion. Also ze schalle pray specially for ye weder, yl God for hys mercy send suche weder as Christen men haue most nede of. Also y* pray specially for alle trw. ' tylmen, pylgrjmys & pal mers, yc any gode vays haue wnder takyn to goo, y' of ys mercy gyf yam grace vele for to goo, & wele for to cpme, & gyf yaim part of * om prayers & vs part of or gode 3 gates and gode dedes. Also for ye god mon & god wyfe', ' y1 gaf ye holy lofe yis day. And for yaim yt fyrst began & 4 lenges holdes on. For alle yes, & alle oyer y' we are bonden to pray for, ze schalle with gude deuocion say a pater noster & Aue Maria, tfC. i When yat you sese a mon, yat is neyzt to ye dethe, speke to hym in yis maner. Brother, art you glad yt you schalle dee? Respondeo hee. H Knowleche yu, yt you hast not wele leued, as youschuld? Respondeo hee. f Art y sory yerfore? Re- spondeo hee. % Hast yu wylle to amend ye, yf yu haue spase of lyfe ? Respondeo hee. f 6 Leuyst yu in God, fader almyzty, maker of heuen and of erthe? Respondeo zee. f Leuyst yu in Fader, & ye Son,' & ye holy Gost, iii. personis & on God? ¦ Respondeo zee. f Leuyst yu, yc oure Lord Jhesu Crist, Godde's son of heuen, was consayuyd of oure lady saynt Mare, was borne of hyr scho beyng moder & niaydyn ? -Respondeo lee. f Leuyst yu, yl he suffrizt payn & 7 dyet for oure trespas, & nozt for hys gylt, vnder Ponucez Pylate, and s yc he was don on ye cros, & dyed for ye on gode Fryday, & was beryt ? Responded zee.. I Thankest yu hym yerfore ? Respondeo zee. H Leuyst y' yu ,may. not be saued, bot thruthe hys dethe? Respondeo zee. f Tunc dicat sacerdos, Wyle y' saule is in y' body, put alle y' tryst in hys passion, and in hys dethe, and thenke only yer on, & on noo oyer thyng 9 wyt hys dethe medulle ye, ¦ Labourers, husbandmen. " F. oure, i. e. your, ut. Sf max or idem sit quod your. 3 Ways, vel potius gettings. * Long hold, s This is on the second side of the Leaf. 6 Believest. ' Dyed. s L. yt. •> Except, but. & 684 GLOSSARY. & * warpe the yer in, nozt thenkyng on y' wyfe," ne on ys =¦ cheldyr, ne on y> rychas, bot only alle in y passion of Crist, & haue y« cros be fore yc, and say thus: " I wete wele yu art " not my God, but yu art ymagened after hym, and makes me " haue more mynd of hym, after whom yu art 3 ymagened after " hym. 1 Lord fader of heuen, ye dethe of oure Lord Jhesu Crist " y' son, wyche is here ymagened, I sette betwene yc & my ewylle " dedys, & ye desart of Jhesu Crist I offer for yl the wheche I schuld *' haue serued, and haue not." Say ayen, Lord, yc dethe of onre " Lord JhesuCrist y' son, wyche was borne of saynt Mare, moder u & maydyn, I sette betwene me & y' wrathe." And say, " Lord " in to y1 hondez I be take my saule, for yu God of treuthe boztis " me." Saye so thyse, " Saynt Austen spake to God in yis maner: " A my lord, my mercie, my refute, the I desyre, to ye I fle, I " bye to come to ye, Lord dispyce not me, thozt I be wrechyt & " synfulle, bot be to me a helper in yis my gret nedes, for 1 may " not helpe & ayan bye my saule with my dedes, bot yu Lord hase " bozt me, you bryng me out of care, and haue merry of me. I " trust not in my dedes, but dyspayre of hom, sane yet I trust more " on y* mercy yen I dyspayre of my wykyd dedes. you art my "God, yu art my hope, yu 'art fulle of mercy, azayne ye I haue " synnyd throw my gret defaute. I com & knowleche to ye, I be. " seche ye of mercy, I desyre to be deed & lyff with y', to y1 hondes, " Lord, I betake my saule, for yu boztez me God of Trinite. Amen. "fiat, fiat. i milce, mer.cy. misdede, misdeeds, misdoings. rhildeliche, mildly. misdo, misdone, done amiss. mine vp [pro nime vp fort e] take mis niminge, mistaking, taking a- up. - way. minstres, minsters, monasteries. Missele's, Michael's. mis cas, mischance. Misselmasse, Michaelmass. 1 Wrap. • Children. » Sic. Missomer, GLOSSARY. 685 Missomer, Midsomer. mo, more, many, men, other, else, mo nat, men knew not, there was not known, mod, mind, mood, mode, mood, affection, mind. mon, man, men. mondain, worldly. mone, mention, mind, memory, more. monechyn, nun. monekene, monkish. monekene wede, monk's habit. mones, monks. monge, mingled, many. monne, man. mony, many, monymon adrentte, many a man was drowned. monye makers, Counterfeiters of the Coyn. monyon, many one. Mor, Mayor. more, (major,) ancestor, ancestors, more, greater, moor, soyl, ground, earth, line, more conne, understand more. , morede, grubbed, digged. morwe, morning, morrow. morweninge, morning. mory, miry, marshy, moist. mossel, morsel. moste, might, should, must. mot, may, must. mote, must, may, might. mou, mowing. mouns, mountains, the moun tains. mountes, the mountains. mowe, may, must, cousin, be mowed. muche, much, great, many, a great many, large, muche halle, the great hall, the large hall. muche del, - a great deal, a great part, muche thing, many things. muchedel sive muche del, a great part. muchel, much, large, great, for it muchel men were, because tliey were large men, or men of a great stature. mucheldel, a great part. muchele, great. muchelle, much, a great deal, very much, the muchelle large halle, the very large hall, the great large hall. mud, mind, (ut p. 240.) in mud^ i. e. in mind. munde, mind, memory, mention. Munstre, Minster, Church, Mo nastery. murgorye, merrier. murgost, merriest. mury sive murye, merry, plea sant. mustre, mynster. myd, with, mine. myddel evpe, world. Mydewynter, Christmass, Mid winter, middle or midst of Win ter. See Midewinter. myd ouer none, sive myd ouer- non, mid-afternoon, sive the middle of the afternoon. Ne que aliud denotat myddeouer none. mydoyng, misdoing. my gt, mightest, mayst. mygtuol, powerful!. mylce, mercy, mylce and ore, mercu 686 GLOSSARY i mercy and protection, mercy dnd compassion I. Maccabees III. 44. myldel, middle. mylfol, mercifull. my nawne, mine own. myngen, mixed. myngyng, mixing, mingling. mynowe sive my nowe, mine own. niysauntre, misadventures. mysayse, misease, uneasiness, ill usage, grievance, grief, mysbeleuede, disbelievers, pagans. mys bileuede sive mysbileud, mis believing, disbelieving, mys- bileued men, disbelieving men. mys bylyuede, misbelieving. mys clemiyge, (pag. 375.) pro mys cleminge, mischiefs, mischances, mys dp, misdone, mys ydo, misdone. myseise, misease, calamity, uneasi. ness, ill usage. myseyse, misease, misuse. myspayde, displeased. myster, mistirr, riot, disturb ance. mystrpwest, mistrustest. myswende, irregular, pr miswent, accprding to what is said of the Church of Cuckstone in Kent (which is very unusual in Proportion) viz. if you would goe to a Church mis went, you must goe to Cuck stone in Kent. See Dr. Plot's Account of his intended Jour ney through England and Wales for the discovery of Antiqui ties, and other Curiosities, (pub lish' d by me at the End of the Hd. Vol. of Lejand's Itinera. ry) p. 109. mytte, with thee. N. nabbe, have not, had not. nabbeb, have not. nad, had not. nadde, had not. naddest, haddest not. nazt, nought, nothing. nai, nay. ' nam, took. nammo, no more. namo, no more. namore sive na more, no more. nane, have thou not. nanmor, no more. nanmore, no more. na ene', not once. nart, art, art not. nart one y payed, art not only pleased. - narwe, narrowly. nas, was not, were not, Was he not, was nothing, nas nogt long, 'twas not long, ac nas nogt long her after, ah God wreche of hem nome, butftzeas not long after that, ere God took of them revenge. See non. nast, hast not. nat, ntit. nat for than, nevertheless. nab, zeas not, hath not. nabeles, nevertheless. nabem* GLOSSARY. 687 Hajemo sive nape mo, nothing more, never more, neither, nere the more. naur, no where. ne, now, not, truly, really, verily, nigh, neither, nor, nay. ne deb, p. 18. now doth, ne konne ge, cannot ye. ne be bou np sp sturne, be thou never so stern. ne coube, could not, knew not. ne leuede, should not be left; left not. ne leuede nogt, left not any thing, ne see ge, p. 397. . nor do you see ; do not you see. Potest tamen ne hic loci now denotare. ne hadde, had not. ne dorre, durst not. ne made, did not make, ne adde enche- soun ibe of manslazt mani on, certainly it had been the oc. . casion of many ones death. ne les, lost not. ne gef hym nogt, did not give him leave. ne the mor, nere the more, nei ther. ned sive nede, need, purpose, in need, needed. Sed pag. 455. pro nede mails forsitan dede, ¦i.e. deed, ut plane in Ar. nedes, needs, necessary occasions. nedus, necessaries. neg, nigh. nel, will not. nele, will not. nelle, zcill not. nelt, wilt not. nemde, named. nempde, named. nempne, named. nempnede siz>e nempned, named. ' Of the- same signification is like. wise neuene in the Prologue to Robert of Brunne's Chronicle. nene, no, nor. ner, were not, did not, it were not, near, nearer, never, ner nas, never was not, i. e. never was, pro more Saxonum. ner he ner, be he never, ner me not to done, it were not for me to do. ner hym ner, be he never, ner hym no so lob, were he never so loth or unwilling. nere, never, might not be, should not be, were not, was not, near, had not been, it were not, were it not. nere forlore, should not be lost, nere to ydel nogt, should not be at all given to idleness. nere pe voreward no so>strong, were the condition or bargain never so strong or firm, nere he no so prout, were he never so proud, nere ido, should not be done, nere inome, should not be taken, nere yt no so lute worb, were it never so little zoorth. nes, was not. nesselyche, nicely, nash or nesh for nice is us'd in many Coun. ties (particularly in the North. West part) of England to this day, from the Saxon neyc, soft, tender, delicate, effe minate, &c. See Somner's Diet. netheles, nevertheless. ne the mor, nere the more, nei. ther. neuer, nor ever. ncueref, never after. neuereft, 688 GLOSSARY. neuereft, never after, never after wards. neuen, nephew, neuen- spne, ne. phew's son. neuene. See nempnede. neueu, kynnesman, nephew. nevew, neice. newe, no whit, never. Newewnrc sive Newewprk, New ark. nexte, next. ney, nigh, near, nexte ney, next neighbours. ney wat, nigh what, a ney, (p. 404.) an egg. neye, e^e. ney wat, nigh.what. nime, take. nimeb, taketh. nintence, nineteen. ninty, ninety, ninetieth. nis, is not.- iiithe, ninth. no, not sive now. nobel, noble. noble, noble, nobles, nobility. noblei, nobleness, splendour, no. bility, generosity. noblelich, nobly. nobleye sive nobley, nobleness, nobility, birth, splendour, so. . lemnity, noble. nobliche sive noblyche, nobly. noblye, nobleness. nogt, not. nogt for (sive vox) pan, neverthe less; not but that, and nozt, vor pan, pag. 224. und (sive but) without reason, for that sive because. Sed quum & nabeles hdbeat Codex Cottonia- nus, poles etiam hoc in loco fa. terpretari, and nevertheless. nogt on, p. 392. but one. sed reponend. forsitan but, ut in Ar. sane hoc sensu accipiend. esse ex ipsa liquet Robert! nostri historia. nogt lygtlyche, not easily. nolde, would not. nplde hii nogt byleue, would they not leave. Two negatives in, this Book do not make an affirmative, but one negative adds strength ra ther (accprding to the Saxons) to the other, nolde a vot, would not stir a foot, nolde panne wende a vot, would not go thence a foot, he suor he nolde banne, ar he were wi binne, he swore he would not stir thence, till he were with in. noleng, no longer. nolle, will not. nom, took, receiv'd, take. noman, (nemo,) no man, no body, nome, took, takes, take, should take, made, receiv'd, held, would take, me nome, should be taken. nomeliche, namely. nomo, took. non, noon, none, non nas, pag. 233. there was none. . [In a Pamphlet call'd, The Muses Mercury: or Monthly Mis. cellany, for the Month of June 1707. 4to. the word nas 2* most ignorantly and absurdly translated, abbot. The Author of the Essay there of the old English GLOSSARY. 689 English Poets and Poetry hath produced four of Robert of Gloucester's Rhythms about Bangor, but not immediately from any MS. but (as I take it) from Weever, who made use of the spurious Robert of Gloucester.} non mon, not more, non man ne say, never any man saw. non other, no. thing else. nor, for. norysy, to be nourished, to nourse. note, not, nothing. noper, another, peither. nou, no. noughte, in vain. nour, no zohere. nouse, noise. nout, not, nought, nothing. noube sive noup, now. N nouzt sive nouzte, not, nought, nothing, to no purpose. nower, no where. nowbe, now. nowper, neither. nozt, not. nul, will not. nulde, would not. nuste sive nust, know not, knew not, did not know, nuste it not, should not know it. nuteb, do they not know. ny, nor. nyce, foolish, silly. nye, nine. nyentene, ninety. nyentebe. nineteenth. nylle, will not. nylt, wilt not. nym, take. Vol. II. nyme, take, to take, be taken. nyme at, take away,1 nymeth, taketh, take. nys, is not. nys bi leued, is not left. nype, ninth. nywe, the new; O. O, one, on, owe, of, for, own, what. at o word, in one word. o cler, a clear. odel, one part, a deal. of, of, oft, often,in,outof,for, zcith, concerning, about, from, at, by. of clergie, in clerkship, of londe flowe, fiew out of the land, of bygonde see, from beyond sea. of ynou, than enough, and monne's sones wreche senst of her fader mys dede. and sendest revenge to the sons of men for their fathers misdoings. of the toun, for the town, of this, for this. of prison to ben ydo, to be put {or to be let) out of prison, of him with- drowe, withdrew himself from. This word of for by was used even 'till after Henry the Eighth's time, as appears from several Instances, particularly from a MS. (a great curio. sity) that zvas collected by the famous Dr. Feclcnam Abbat of Westminster, as is plain by the following Memorandum, in which of occurrs for by; This Booke of souereigne v medi- 690 GLOSSARY. medicines, againste the moste common and knowen diseases, both of men and women,* was by gppd prpufe and longe .ex perience collected of maister doctour Fecknam, late Ab- botte of Westmynster, & that cheiflye for the pppre, which haue npt at all tymes the learned PhisicpiTs at hande. This MS. (which is in Folio) belongs to a very worthy, vir tuous, and pious Lady, who zeas pleased to shew it me on June 9th. 1720. as I zias walking and rambling about the Country in search of Cu- of tplde, cared for. oftor, often, oftener. of ynou, by much. ogt, any ways, at all, ought, any of come, overcome. of iholde, withheld from. of reche, come at. pf scapede sive oi scaped, escaped, got away. ofscapode, escaped, of scapye, escape. of sende, send for, sent for, of serue, observe, of serue yt well agen Ged, serve God well. ofserued, deserved. of sitte., sit against. ¦ ofssamed, ashamed. pf stpnde, stand against. of suore, swpre. ofswyrike, labour for. of take, overtake, taken, appre hended, catch'd. ofte, often. ¦ ofte sybe, oftentimes. «f bouzte, repented. ogyrt, other, qlherguesse. ok, aked, did ake. oke, ak'd. om, home, ome, home. on, only, one, to, a, once, an, on, in. And this word signifies one (as well as on or in) in the Prose Additions to Robert of Gloucester, in the MS. I call Ar. in which we have the fol lowing account of four score Persons, that were buried in one Grave in a Church at York, in the second Year of K. Edw. the third's Reign. And on be day of be Trinite nexte suyng was a gret de. baat [in the cite nf Yprke saith Caxton] by Henaudy* & Englysshmen, & in bat mur- per ber were sleye in be Erldem pf Nychpl iiii. skore, & were enteryd vnder on stone in pe churche of Seynt Clement in Fosshegate, & for pe Henaudes come in help- yng of be kyng « by be pees [ ' ther pees Caxton] was cryed a uppon lyff . [ * on payn of -lyfe Caxton] & lyme, & in pat ober syde hit was' fonde by enquest of be cite of York, J>at pe contak rooi by Englysshemen. This story GLOSSARY. 691 story is mentioned in pag. 28. of the Antiquities of York by Christopher Hildyard, Esq. published with Improvements by James Torr, Gent. Anno 1719. 8»o. but 'tis placed in the first Year of the King', and it is said there, that the bodies were buried un der a Stone in Saint Cle ment's Church-Yard in Fosse- gale, onde, Angl. Sax. onbo, quaking, trembling, shaking, fear. on dure, endure. one, alone, only, once. oneketh, uncouth, strange, un known. onekejelond, uncouth land, linked land or country. on isend, sent to. oniwar, unaware. onliche, only. onour, honour. onourede, honoured. onowarde hys wombe, onwards (sive downwards) on his belly. ontliche, only, on war, unwary. on ywar, unawares. onz, zoons. juramentum. corruple, pro Gpd's wpunds. on, owe. op, upon. open heued, bare headed. opu]>, hope. or, or, either, now. ore, pity, forgiveness, mercy, pro. tection. in was ore ich am idp, under whose patronage I , am put. orf, beasts, cattle. prispuns sive orisons, prayers. orn, run, ran. orn vpe, ran up on, run upon. orne, run. ornout, run out, ran out. orpede sive orped, fine, good, se. led. It signifies also couragi. ous, stout, manly, or manfully. For in the Prose Part of the Additions to tHe MS. of Rob. of Glouc. in the Herald's Of. fice we have these Words, in the Account cf King Edw. First's besieging Snowdone - castle, call'd Swandon castelle in Caxton : & they {King Ed ward's men] foughten orped- lyche wip pe Walysshe men, & bey sleyen many of hem, & robbede hure tounes & hure houses, & bo pey went fersly at ons to Snowdone, arid toke pe castelle. And in the same Additions afterwards we have these Words, in the relation of the same K. Edward's be. sieging the town of Berwick : and J>ey put were J»er ynne defendid the toun orpedly, and Jey sette a fure on kyng Ed- wardys shipes, and said a skorne II What wenyb kyng Edward wip his long shankes, to wynne Berewyk wip alle oure vnthankes Gaes pykes hym/ and whan he has hit gaes dykes hym. But for orpedly 'tis manly in Cax. ton. oryson, prayer. y 2 orysons, 69S GLOSSARY. orysons, prayers. os, as. cist, army, host. pte, command. oper, second, or, grandson, (p. 375.) other things, others, ei ther, pe o)?er, the second, other mo, others more, many others, many other, many besides. othere, other, others. opom, son in Ian, p. 440. brother in law, p. 182. otyme sive o tyme, one time. ou, owe, you. ouer, upper, higher, moreover, over, ouer honde, upper hana\ oueral, moreover, aver all, quite, thoroughout, every where, ouer lute, over little, too little, ouer muche, over much, too much. ouer till, compace over. oueryede, went over. ought, at all, any whit. pur, your. oure, your, ours. ourne, ran. put, ought, any thing, in any thing, at all, any whit, out idrawe, drawn out. outliche, utterly. outlych, utterly. out te, go out. out wende, go out. ow, you. owe, own, your. ower, your. owre, your. ozer, one year. paiede, paid. paieth, pleaseth. pais, puce, peace. paipj pleaseth. palatin ydelnesse, court idleness, idleness ofthe Palace, palefrey, palfrey, horse. panes, pence, pennies. panter, (dapifer,) sewer, pantrer. panys, pagans. panyter, pantrer. par, by. Parlement, Council, consultation, Parliament. Parns, Paris. pas, peace, pace. passy vorb, pass over. pauilons, tents. pauylon, tent. pay, peace. payde, pleased.' paye, obey, p. 108. [Potest & idem quod tributum solvere de- notare.] please. paynen, pagan. payns, pagans. paynym, pagan, heathen, hea thenish. paynyme, paganism, heathenism pagans, the pagans, the hea. thens, heathen country, the pa. gan country, unde pag. 401 paynym londe in Ar. In pay. nyme, z"«fo the heathen country, in the heathen country, paynymys, heathens. pays, peace. paysed, made peace. peis, peace. peni, . pence, pennies. & newe peni chaunge imad, a change ixas made for new pence. peny GLOSSARY. 693 peny is, pence. per, peer, equal. perantre, peradventure. perauentere, peradventure. perauntre, peradventure. percede, should pierce. pere, peer, equal. Peris, Peter. perisshe, destroy, pierce perysy, perish. peyne, penalty, forfeiture. peys, peace. piche, fix, prick. pight, pilch'd, pick' d,. peck' d. pigte, pitch' d. pine, pain. pines, pains. pitos, piteous, pitiful!, pitosliche, pitifully, lamentably. pitous, sad, pitifull, pizte, pitch'd. plaininge, complaining. plaw.e, play, luper plawe, dread ful! sin. play, plea. playdinge, pleading. playne, complain. playnede, complained. pie, play, plea. pleie, play. pleinede, complained. plennere, fuller. pley, play. pleyede, played, plyed. pleynte, complaint. plodde, plot of ground,place, ditch. plou .lond, plough lands. plygte, plighteth, promiseth. poer, power. ponyt, the point. por, pure. porchas, purchase, acquisitions, conquest, acquisition, perquisite. porchastde, purchased, procured. • pore, pure. porpos, purpose. pors, points. portreuen, portreeves. porueance, providence, forecast, foresight, provision. porueyde sive poTueyd, vel por. veide, provided. porueye, provide. poudre, dust. pouer, poor. pouer hous, poor houses, poueral, poor. pouere, poor, the poor. poueres, the poor. pouerore, poorer. pourueance, provision. powe, be poor. prelas, prelats. presant, present. presauns, presents. prest sive preste, prepared, ready, arrayed. al prest hym made also, (in omnibus seipsum etiam paravit ;) made also all prepa. rations for himself. Prestus, Priests. preue, prove. prikede, rid. priked forth, ran forth, rid forth. prikie, to ride. prikyng, . pricking, pushing on, riding. prise, practises. prisones, prisoners. prisons, prisoners. prisouns, prisoners. prisuns, prisoners. v 3 priue^ 694 GLOSSARY. priue, proved, approved, privily, privately, privy, trusty, private. priue chaumbres, bog. houses, jakes, houses of ease. priueliche, privately, privily. priuelyche, privily, privately. priues, privy friends or privy counsellors. professe, professed. prottore. Vide wrothore. prou, proof, honour. prough, proof, honour. prow, profit, honour. prude, pride. prute, pride, pomp, solempnity, splendour. pruyte, pride. prykede, pushed, pressed, spurred, rode. prykye, pricking, pushing on, spurring, riding. prys, price, esteem. prysons, prisoners. pryue, privy, private, secret, trusty, confident. pulte, drove, pull'd, put, pull, pelted, struck, thrust. pultyng, pelting. pur, pure. pur blynd, quite blind. purchas, acquisition, perquisite. purchasy, purchase, procure. purueance sive purueaunce, provi sion*. purueide, provided. purwyt, pure white. put, jpz'f. puthe, pitch. putte, pit, grave. pygte, pitch' d, fix' d. pykeled, fine and small, pykele is the same with pucelle, i. e. a Maid, Damsell, Virgine, fine . young Girl, pretty young beau. tifull Creature. And this Word was much used in former times by young Gentlemen, especially at Places -near Oxford, one of which was Garsington in Ox fordshire, and another was Sun- ningwell in Berkshire, to which Village of Sunningwell many Persons of Note were wont to go, particularly at that time when. Fryer Bacon sometimes retired thither, whereof they have a Tradition at Sunningwell to this day, and upon the upper Part of the Tower of the Church is a Place that they call Fryer Bacon's study. Many of the Persons at Sunningwell, of whom this Word pykeled was spoke, had forfeited their Chastity, which occasion'd a sort of Proverbial speech there lo this time. Whence they saV "j All the Maids in Sunningwell, You may put in an Egshell. Sometimes they writ pulched/or pykeled. See above, pag. 647. pykes, stakes. pylt, drove. pyne, pain, punishment. Coll. nostr. MSS. Vol.91, p. 11. & Vol. 99. p. 181. qualm, GLOSSARY. 695 Q qualm, pestilence, destruction. quarre, square. quarry, square. que, Queen. qued, devil, evil queintyse, cunning, contrivance, stratagem. queld, kill'd. quelle, kill. quellyng, killing. queme, please. As this Word was us'd by onr Ancestors in this sense, upon many occasions, so particularly they made use of it when ¦ they spoke of the Affec tion of one Person to another. And therefore 'tis properly enough brought in by Robert of Brunne in his Chronicle when he is speaking, in the following manner, about the Pleasure, that Vortigern, King of the Britains, receiv'd from Rowen, the most beautifuU and most amiable Daughter of Hengist, and as much talk'd of for several Ages formerly, as fair Rosamond was after. wards : Hengest bat day did his might, Jat alle wer glad king & knight. And as bei were best in glading, & » wele cnp schotin knight & king, Of chambir Rouewen sp gent, Be fore pe king in halle schp went. A coupe with wyne sche had in hand, & hir * hatir was 3 wele farand. Be fore be king on kne sett, & on hir langage scho him grett, 1 " 4 Lauerid king, Wassaille," seidsche. be king askid, what suld be. On that langage be king * ne couthe. A knight 6 per langage ' lerid in gouthe. Breg-8 hiht bat knight born Bretoun, pat lerid pe langage of 9 Sessoun. J>is Breg was pe IO latiraer. What schp said tpld Vprtager^ " Sir," Breg sei*, Rpwen gpw gretis, " & king callis & lprd gpw " letis. Ecce Ron- uenna pu- plla amabi- lis if put- era. Wassaile. 'Sending about the cups apace; carousing it fast. 'Attire. ' Very rich. * Lord. i Was not skill' d. 6 The. ' Learned. 'Was called. * Saxons. "> Pro latinier, i. c interpreter. " Esteems. ,i%. • t4 "J» 696 GLOSSARY. Ecce Ronu- enna data est regi in uxorem, if desponsavitillam per legem pa- ganorum. l( Jis es ber custom & per gest, " Whan Jei are at pe ale or fest. " Ilk man Jat louis qware him Jinkj " Salle say Wosseille, & to him drink. '' He Jat bidis saile say, Wassaille. " Je tojer saile say again, Drinkhaille. " Jat sais Wosseille drinkis of Je cop, " I Kissand his felaw he giues it vp. " Drinheille, he sais, & drinks Jer of, " Kissand him in bourd & *skof. Je king said, as Je knight gan 3 ken, Drinkheille, smiland on RoueweTH Rouwen drank as hire list, & gaue Je king, 4 sine him kist, Jere was Je first Wassaille in dede, & Jar; first of fame s gede. •Of Jat Wassaille men told grete tale, & Wassaille whan Jei were at ale. & drinkheille to Jam Jat drank, Jus was Wassaille 6 tane to Jank. H ' Fele sithes Jat maidin 8 ging, Wassailed & kist Je king. Of bodi sche was right 9 auenant, Of fair colour, with swete IO semblaunt. Hir " hatire fulle wele it semid, 12 Meruelik Je king sche I3 quemid. Oute of messure was he glad, For of Jat maidin he wex alle mad. Drunkenes Je feend wroght, Of Jat l4 paen was all his Joght. A meschaunche Jat time him led. He asked Jat paen for to wed. Hengist 'J wild not draw o lite, Bot grauntid him alle so tite. & Hors his brojer consentid sone. Hir frendis said, it were to done. ¦Kissing. 'Skiff. 3 To signify. « Since, afterwards. s Went. 6 Taken. 'Many times. 8 Young. » Handsome, gracefull, well shaped, ifc. lo Countenance. " Attire. " Marvellously. '3 Pleased. '« Pagan, heathen, "s Would not fly off a bit. Jet GLOSSARY. Jei asked Je king to gife hir Kent, In douary to take of rent. O pon Jat maidin his hert so cast, Jat Jei askid Je king made fast. I wene Je king toke hir Jat day, & weddid hire ' on paiens lay. Of prest was Jer no % benisen, No mes songen, no orison. In seisiue he had hir Jat night. Of Keut he gaue Hengist Je right. Je erelle Jat time, Jat Kent alle held, Sir Goragon, Jat had Je scheld, Of Jat gift no JIng i ne wist, 4 To he was cast oute s with Hengist. 697 quethed, bequeathed. queynte, cunning, quaint, eun. ningly. ueyntyse, quaintness, cunning, art, stratagem. quic, quickly. quike, quick, living. quit, quite. quointe, cunning. quointise, cunning. quoynte, quaint, cunning, a cun ning. quoynteliche, quaintly, cunningly. quoyntes, pag. 145. cunning, at turn ex Ar. turn ex Galfrido Mon, constat, quoyntes idem hic esse quod cunning things, sive cunning (vel quaint) operations. quoyntise, cunning,, cunningness, quaintness. quoyntoliche, quaintly, cunningly. quoyntyse, quaintness, cunning, art. quyc, living. quyers, Esquiers. quyke, quick, living. quynture, delivery, release, cure. R. radde, counselled, advised, read. raketyne, a chain. ramson, ransom. rarede, rer'd, rais'd. rape, soon. 'Tis us'd in some of -the South and East Parts of England for early even to this day, and so in some Places in Berkshire ; as rathe in the morn ing, i. e. early in the morning. rath-ripe fruit, i. e. early fruit. rajere, former. raughte, drew. raunson, ransom. ray, ray, sight. raymson, ransom. ¦ In pagans law ; according to the heathenish custom. * Benediction, blessing. » Knew not. * Till. 6 By. recche, 69& GLOSSARY. recche, care. They use the Word rede, p. 27, 194, 318, legere, read, rack or reck in the North Parts rede, p. 353, 414, 481, 566 of England at this time for to red. care. Hence never rack you, rede, counsel, direction, advice, is the same as, take you no will, to counsel, counselled, to thought or care. The ancient advise.' Upon this occasion, I Saxon Word jiecc signifieth care, cannot but note, that this word and peccan, to care for. rede, or, as above, red, is the recetj receit, refuge, retreat, re. same with the Saxon preb, which ception. also signifies counsel or advice, recetted, received. and 'tis us'd in some Places lo rechyles, negligent, careless. this day : and that jiajb anedian red, p. 414, 548, red. with the Saxons was, to give red, counsel, remedy, zoay. pat advice, and reade thy read with beste red the can rede, that can us is, to take thy counsel, as in give thee the best counsel. these Rhythms * ; With a red man reade thy read ; With a brpwn man break thy bread; At a pale man draw thy knife ; From a black man keep thy wife. Thomas Sternhold therefore, in into English Meeter, hath wisely His Translation of the first Psalm made use of this Word : The man is blest that hath not bent to wicked reade his ear : " Nor led- his life as sinners do, nor sat in scorners chair. But in the late (spurious) Edi- word read is changed into men. * tions of the singing Psalms the For thus in them : ¦ The man is blest that hath not lent to wicked men his ear : Nor led his life as sinners do, nor sat in scorners chair. Isay, spurious Editions ; because the worse. And yet notwith. not only here, but quite through- standing the Title Page stands out the whole Book of Psalms as it us'd tp do, and all are strange alterations, all far (ichich is abominable in any Ray's English Proverbs, p. S93. Ed. 2d. book, GLOSSARY. 699 book, much more in^a sacred Work) is ascrib'd to Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others. And yet I am confident, were Sternhold, Hopkins and the other translators now liv ing, they would be so far from owning what is ascrib'd to them, that they would pro ceed against the Innovators as cheats, especially too since they have in several places ehang'd the very initial Let ters, that were to represent the several Parts of the Psalms that eveiy one turn'd into Meeter. This will very easily be perceiv'd from comparing the spurious Ed. in 1723. with the old Editions, which ought carefully to be sought after, and kept as Curiosities. Mr. Wood observes ', that Thomas Sternhold (who died in 1549. ) turn'd into English Meeter 6\ of David's Psalms, and caused Musical Notes lo be set to them, and that all those Psalms, which he put into rhythm, have the Letters T. S. set before, to distinguish them from others. Then saith he, Contemporary with Stem- hold was Joh. Hopkyns, who is idled to be * Britannicorum Poelarum sui temporis non infimus, as indeed by the gene rality living in the reign of Ed. 6. he was so, if not more, esteem'd. He turn'd into Meeter 58. of Da. vid's Psalms, which are to this day sung in Churches ; and in all Editions of the said Psalms, [z'f seems Mr. Wood had observ'd no Innovations] his (which he translated) hath set before them the two Letters J. H. And a little after he tells us s, that, besides these two, he found others to have had hands in making the said Psalms to run in Meeter, as Will. Whittyngham, afterwards Dean of Durham, and Thomas Norton of Sharpenhaule or Sharpenhoe in Bedfordshire, who seems to have been a Barres^ ter, and made 27. of the said Psalms of David to run in rhythm. Mr. Wood afterwards gives * a full and distinct account of the said Whittyngham, and, among other things, hath these Words. At the same time also [that Whittyngham and others at Ge- nevatranslatedtheBible intoEn- glish] he [Whittyngham] turned into Meeter those Psalmes that we to this day sing in our Churches, inscrib'd with W. W. They are in number five, of which the 119. Psalme is one, as large as 22. other Psalmes, as also the ten command ments, and a prayer, at the end of the book of Psalmes. But now if you look into what the Inno vators have done, you will find, ' Athen. Oxon. Vol. I. col. 62. 'Baleus in Script, maj. Britan. p. 113. inter cent. 12. & 13. &c. 3 Ibid. col. 63.. * Col. 152, &c. that 700 GLOSSARY. yAaf they have ascrib'd the gxix. Psalm to W. L. and not to W. W. to particularize no more of their intolerable Al terations (and to say nothing of their Omissions ) a liberty which ought by no means lo be permitted, or approv'd of, by such as are for Uniformity, and have any regard for the old English Saxon tongue, of which there are several Words in the old Editions of the singing Psalms, not withstanding chang'd by such as were not at all vers'd in Saxon. See above in the Word behet. redi, ready. redoubted, venerable, worshipfuU. Caxton calls the Lady Mar garet, Sister to K. Edw. the IV. his redoughted Lady, as I find by the following Note (entered in one of my 'MSS. J relating to a rare Book in the hands of a learned Friend, viz. " In the Study of Tho. " mas Rawlinson, Esq. The " recuyell of the hislorj^es of " Troye, by Raoul le Feure. u Translated out of Fr. by " Caxton. In the Preface Cux- " ton, saith, he never was in l( France. That he was born " and lerned hys English in " Rente in the weeld, where " (saith he) I doubte . not is " spoken as brode and rude " englissh as is J mony place " of Englond, and have con- " rynuedbythe space of xxx. yere " for the most parte in the " contres of Braband, Flan- " dres, Holand and Zeland, " Sfc. Put upon it by the " Lady Margarete, suster unto " the K. of England and of " France — And was fully in " wyll to haue left hyt, [hav- " ing laid it aside for two " yeares after begun] tyll on a " tyme . hit fortuned that the " ryght hyghe excellent and " right vertuous prynces my " ryghte redoughted lady my " lady Margarete by the grace " of God suster unto the " kynge of Englond,. & of " France, my souerayn lord " Duchesse of Bouigoyue, of " Lotryk, of Brabant, of " Lymburgh, and Luxenburgh, " Countes of Flandres, of " Artoys, and of bourgoine, " Palatynee of Heynawd of " Holand, of Zeland, and Na. " mur, Marquesse of the holy " empire, lady of Fryse of " Salins and of Mechlyn, sente " for me Sfc. She found i( fault with his style. He " was servant to her, and " receiv'd fees of her year. " ly and many Profits. He " begun it at Brugis' in ' Coll. Vol. 61. p. 167. ¦ Sic MS. nostr. f. in ony. " Flan. GLOSSARY. 701 " Flanders, March first 1468. " and finished it Sept. W. " 1471. The Copies were all "printed off in one day, as " he notes in the end of the " Work. I suppose he stood " by to see them wrought " off." redy, consulting, readily. reed, counsel, advice. refute, refuge, socour. refute di vine, God's help or assistance. refuyt, refuge. regne, kingdom. remewe, remove. remue, remove. remued, removed. rcnable, ready. rere, build. restellis, a little pall with tlie host in it. reu, pity. reue, deprive, bereave. reuerye, rapine, robbery. reuested, cloathed, attired. reuestede, rested. reufol, ruthfull, miserable, pitifull, merciful!. reulych, miserably, pitifully, mise. ruble, pitifull. reuje, pity. rewe, lament, have pity. . rewede, robbed, ravaged. rewliche, miserably, ruthfully. rewje, pity, richeliche, richly. rid, they rid sive rode, riding. rigge, (dorsum, tergum,) back. righ, right. riue, rife, frequent. rizt, right, just. rizt foi, rightfull. robberye, robbing. roches, stones. rode, rood, cross. rodede, rotted. rogte, cared, took care, hym ne rogte hou he spende, he did not care or consider how he spent. , rood, rode. roten, roots. roters, (eradicatores,) rooters. rojeren, oxen. Roucestre, Rochester. rought, cared, took care, rought of, cared for. route, (turba), multitude, multi tudes, numbers, power, compa ny, a route,' a multitude. rowe, rough, foward. ruche, rich. rug, back. rugge, back, backs. rugges, backs. rugh, back. rumede, roam'd, open'd, made. ruiuede hor wey anon, made their wuy presently. ryde, riding. rygt, just, even. ryue. Angl. Sax. nyje, fast, rife, frequent, idem quod blyue. ryuor, more rifej more frequent. S. Sacre, Consecrate. sacrede, consecrated. sacri. — to sacri him ther to, to have himself consecrated to it. sacring, 702 GLOSSARY. sacring, consecration, anointing^ crowning. sacryej, consecrate. g&cryng, consecration,consecr ating, sage, prophetess. sai, saw. saide, tryed, preyed. sailede, assailed, invaded, set upon. sal, shall. samdel, considerably. same, shame. same (sive sam) ded, half dead. sauifayle, without fail. sante, scanty, scarcity. sanz, without. Sater, Saturday. saunzfaille, without fail. saut, assault, onset. sauy, save. saxes, knives. say, saw, perceived, (stuff, cloath, p. 390.) Jo he ojer ne say, when he saw no other remedy. saylede, leaped. sayne, said, say. saysy. seise. scabbard. scaubert, see, see. scenatour, chieftain. schende, spoiled, troubled, spoil, destroy, confound, confounded, brought to shame, shamed. schrewe, tyrant. schrewede, schrewed. scomfiture, discomfiture. scot, scot, shot, reckoning. seche, see/*;. secre, secrets. " tio qua; " in sacra " submissa " dicitur." " Seceeta, Ora- post Prasfationem Liturgia secrete & voce a Saeerdote Vide Dii-Fresnii schonde, loss, disgrace schoue, shoved, In tyme, Jat Vortiger regned riche Jre schipes aryued at Sandwiche, With faire folk & wele dight. Hengiste & Hors Je maistres hight, Of faire stature, withou ten lak, & a selceuth spech Jei spak. ' Rob. of Brunne's Chrort. Gloss, in voce. sed, set. sede, saw, said, told. sedest, told'st. see, p. 395. so, nisi fprsitan idem sit quod ecce ! segeth, say. segge, say, speak, tell, see. seggege, say ye. segget, speak of. seggej, say, sayeth. seggyng, saying. segh, saw. sei, saw. seie, saw. seigh, saw. seighe, say, sate. seist, sayest. seite, set. seij, say. selby. — for hadde selby, because he had specious, happy, selcouth, strange, uncouth, unit. sual, rare. selde, GLOSSARY. 703 se'lde, seldom. selkouth, unusual, rare. sely, innocent, silly.. semblant. i, countenance, pleasant ness. Alii semelant Sf semlante scribunt. The Word was very Whan Arthure had his land justised, & alle don as he auised, Genoyre he wedded, mad hir quene. Norised with Cadpr had scho bene. Schn was Sir Cador cosyn, & born of Je Romans lyne, & hir moder of Roman kynde, So feir as scho mot no man fynde. Inon scho couth of curtasie, Large giffer, ' spekand lufely. Of body was scho 9anerlant. Faire countenance with suete semblant. properly used of Ladies zoitli very fine Faces. Hence Ro bert of Brunne in his Chro nicle, speaking of K, Arthur's Queen : send, sendeth. send send, p. 502. sendeth. sed prius send (ut opinpr) delen. dum est. sende, sent, spoiled. sene, seven. senene, seventh. seneje, seventh. senst, sendest. seriaunt, servant. Sesonie, Saxony. sej, seeth, boile, see, after. sethe, after, afterwards. sejen, since, after. sette adoun, put down. sejje, yrSSau, after, afterwards, further furthermore, moreover. sejje Jo, after that. seu, suit. seue, seven. seuene, seventh. sewed, followed. sexes, knives. sey, saw, did see, perceived. seyde, said, sold. seye, saw, see. seygnerye, power. seygnorye, power, dominion:, seynorye, provinces. seyst, sayest, saidst. seyte, sight. seyj, seeth, see, say, saith, a* we seyj, as we say, non as we see. Nam in Cod. Ar. as he seith. shen, bright, fair. sheuche, smell, last. shenfullyche, shamefully. In o- ther Authors we have it writ shinfullyche or shynfullyche. Speaking finely; of lovely speech. « Comely, ifc 704 GLOSSARY. So in the prose Additions to the MS. in the Heralds Office of Robert of Glouc. we have shynfulle for shamefuU. The Word occur rs there soon af ter tire account of Walter Stapleton, Bp. of Exeter's being beheaded by the Lon doners. After the Author hath mentioned that barba. rous Execution, he proceeds to the Tozeer, that he was at that time building zeith. out Temple Barr, and then to his Funeral. The Nar rative differs considerably from that in Caxton's Chron. z vi b. and for that rea. son I shall here give the zeords (one of which is shyn fulle, whereas it is euell^ in Caxton) just as they are in the MS. And Jat same tyme [when he was beheaded] pe bysshop hadde a faire tour a makyng wij out temple barre, at Je heyghe yn on Themye syde, & hym lackyde stoon. Wherefore he made his men to go to Je churche of Je Frerys, the whiche at Jat tyme were clepyd Je frerys of the pye, & Jer Jis bys. shopys men pykkyd stonys out of hurre lond, to perfourme his tour; & Jer also he hadde muche sond, Je whiche Je fonn. den among old robelle Jer Jat Jey dyggcdyn after stonys, & alsb muche old morjer Jat was laft-. Jer of old tyme. And1 for Je dissese Jat Je bysshop1 hadde do to holy churche,- he* and his two squyers [William of Walle and John of Pa. dyntonc~\ weryn buryed in Je same sond as fjey had noughte be cristned, and so Jey layn Jer xi. wokys, fort Jat Je quene prayede by hure let. teris to Je for sayd comyns of London, Jat Jey shold sufFre Je body of Je forsaid bysshop be buryed in his owen church of Seynt Cle ment wij out Londone. & hit was no wonder Jough Je bisshop deide in shyn fulle dej. for he was a co- uetous man wij ont .pyte', and he consailed Je kyng as ojer dude in yulle ma. ner. shent, confounded. were shent, they were confounded. sherewarde, shrew. shode, bush of hair. shost, shouldst. shullen, shall. shullej, shall, shal! go. ¦ sibbe, nigh of kin. sib'd for kin.M us'd now in the North. Hence they say, no sole sib'd for nothing a kin. And Ray observes, that they have a Proverb in Cheshire, no more sib'd then sieve and riddle, that grew both in a wood together. It comes ( from the Saxon JVoul jyb, rybbe, kindred, GLOSSARY. 705 kindred, alliance, affinity. And 'tis from the same Word, that in Sussex they call the Banes of Matrimony sibberidge or sib. bered. ribrede, consanguinity, the king him let'vor sibrede to dele, the king let himself be separated (or the king zeas separated or divorced) upon account of con. sanguinify, from. sicouror, securer, more secure. siker, sure, secure, assured. sikeri, secure. sikerliche, surely, securely. sikeruesse, security, sureness. sikerore, securer. sikerour, securer. Sink pors, Cinque Ports. sipes, ships. sire, (Domiuus,) Lord, Seignior, Sir. The several Acceptations of this Word, both as a di. stinguishing Attribute of Greatness, and as an ordinary Salutation, are so well known, {as are also that of Madam, which, however, doth not concern us here) that it will be needless to enter into discourse about them. It is as extensive (in it's significa tion) ds either Dominus or Domina in the Latin. And yet in old time the title of Dominus or Sir was not given to any in our Universities, 'till they came to be Bache. lours of Arts, zehich Degree . & p. 996. bi 3 See Bp. Burnett, loco citato. emptioB; GLOSSARY. rog •emption was made, and was one of those that confirm' d it'. Raphael Hollingshead tells us in his Chronicle *, that William Caxtono^LondonMercerorozjgVjf Printing into England about the year 1471. andfirst practis'd the same in the Abbie of Saint Peter at Westminster : and that after that time it was likewise practis'd in the Abbies of St. Augustine at Canterburie, Saint Albon's, and other Monasteries of Eng land. Tho' it be an Error that Caxton was the first that printed in this Nation, (sipce we have Books printed at Oxford befpre any appear to have been printed at Westminster) yet what he asserts of Printing being carried on in other Monasteries, is unde niably true ,¦ and amongst the rest this of Tavistock craves a Place : where notwithstanding I have seen only this Book of Boetius print ed, as I have hinted above, yet I do riot at all doubt but a great many others were printed here. For we cannot suppose, that the Monks were less in. dustrious in promoting Learn ing after the Invention of this most nnble Art, by which they had an easy Method pf multi plying Copies, than they were before. Their Application for the good of Letters before this time appears sufficiently from the Histories that are now ex stant, and from a great Variety of MSS. which from the Notes either at the Beginning or End show, that they were transcrib'd in Monasteries, where a Set of Men were kept on purpose for transcribing Books. 'We have Catalogues of some of their Li. braries still exstant, by which they appear to have been extra ordinary curious in collecting and transcribing Books of va. lue. Nay they were so nice, that in some Libraries they put Verses in the Windows on pur pose to direct what Books of Npte they had (not thinking a written Catalogue enough) and over them the Pictures pf the respective Authors. We have a Specimen of such Verses exstant in a MS. ' that I have often consulted in the Bodleian Library. They were those that were placed in the Library of St. Alban's, and beings a Curi osity that you will be pleased with, I would transcribe them for your use, did I not find them printed, with others that were in the Cloysters and Pres. bytery of the same Monastery, in the Monasticon Anglicanum. However upon collating them I found some variations, which I shall mention at the Bottom ' See Mon. Angl. T. I. p. 218. b.30, Laudianos, E, 31. ' Vol. 111. p. 6-18. b. 3 inter Codd. MSS, z 3 of 710 GLOSSARY. of the Page * of this Letter, and add two pr three other Notes for your better Satisfa ction. Since therefore there are various Specimens of the inde fatigable Industry of the Monks in advancing Learning, inso much that several have observ'd, that there was hardly any Learn ing but in the Monasteries, ex cepting the Universities (where, however, there were a great many Religious Houses that werj/.oua», eVi eiVt oW»Toi Xayfii, — Maccabees I. VIII. 1, 2. The Jv,«.rol lo-yl'i here art called mighty and valiant men in our common English Translation in the first verse, but men of great valour in the second. Nor does the Version pr. in Hen. Eighth's time (viz. A. D. 1541. regit. 33d.) differ as to the first place, but in the second it is doughtye men of strength. The word doughty is much used now, and very proper. ly from the Saxon bohctj, noble, stout, valiant, hardie, couragious, renowned, verlu^ ous. staleworje, steelworthy, strong. stalewortheste, strongest. stallewardes, couragious. stalward, strong, valiant, stout. Vide cl. Gibsoni notas ad Guli. elmi Drummpndi Polemo-Mid. diniam, p. 3. stalwarde, fine, valiant, couragi. ous, stout, strong, stalwarde -men, strong young men. stalwardeste, valiantest. stalwardhed, valour. stalwardhede, bravery. stalwardlyche, eouragiously, va. liuntly. stalwardmen, valiant men. -stalwarhede, couragiousness. stalworde, valiant, fine, strong. stalwordore, more valiant, more couragious. stalwordest, the finest and most valiant. stalworje sive stalwerth, strong, couragious, valiant. standrad, standard. stap, step. sfape, step, stepped. stappes, steps. stare, hard, severe. stat, state, condition. stede y place, part, steed, horse. Jat no stede nas by leuede, that no part of him was free. Jere GLOSSARY. 717 Jere as of stedes a gpd & quic me fond,' as there, pr so that there, men found, him lo be a good and quick man in horses, or to be a good and quick horse man. steden, steeds. stedes, steeds, horses, places. Btel, steal'd, stole. stenche^ stink. step, stepped. step J, steppeth,-step. stete, steade, place. stey, ascended. sthenche, smell, last. stille, still, stilly, privately. stillelich, stilly, privately, softly. stilleliche, stilly, privately. stilliche, privately, stilly. stode, place. stok, stock'd. •stonde, time, an instant, presently, stood. stont, stands. storys, stories, sed hic (p. 181.) idem quod towers. stounde, moment, minute, hour, time, space of time, little time, opportunity. In Suffolk even to this day they call a little zehile, a stouud. The Saxon is jtunb, momentum, spalium, hora. stoupe, stoop, bending. stouple, stubble. Stonrbelyng, troubling, distur bance. jtourde, sturdy, eager. streng, strings. strenge, strength; ilrenthe, strength, touch, point, push. streyt, strict. streytlyche, strictly. striue, strife. ' strong, strange, strong. At in Ar. p. 69. v. penult, textus stronge habemus, perinde atque idem esset etiam illo loco quod strange, quum tamen idem quod nuncium validum esse cense. rem. stronge, strong, strange, strong men. strongje, strength. stroyd, destroyed. stude, stead, place, studes, steads, places, houses. studeuaste, stedfast. slunde, time. stured, stirred. sturede, stirred. sturne, stern. be hom stume, of them sternly. sturnelyche, sternly. sturnhede, sternness, austerity, roughness. sturte, started, ran, stirr'd. stylelyche, stilly, privately. sty'.lelyche, privately, privily? stilly. sty\le,privately,with himself, stilly, suart, black, dark, so suart sof as black as. subruphus, a little redy reddish. sue, such. sucst, [pro suest.] p. 525. foi- lowest. suej, seeth. Jat me sucj ylome, that men see sometimes £ that are seen sometimes. suenche, labour. suerd, 718 GLOSSARY. suerd, swords. suere, neck. suerie, to swear. suest. Vide sucst. sneyn, swain, young man. suich, such. suich Giffarde's asoyne icholde hom ofte come, I account them to come of ten from such an excuse of Giffard's. suiche, such. suikedom, wickedness, deceit, trea son, treachery. suith, very. suije, after, very. sukst, seest. sul euene, eleven. sulf, self, safe. sulle, sell, let us sell, sell me, ychelle sulle, / zsill or shall sell. lulue, self, same, themselves. Vor sulue wommen ne byleuede, Jat hii ne wende Juder vaste, for women themselves did not Un to go thither fast. sum del, something. sumdelle, considerably. summe, some. summe's rede, the counsel, of some. sumny, summon. sunne, sin, the sin. sunnes, sinns. sun'uol, sinfull. suoddrynge, sleep, faintness. ab Ang. Sax. rpe'Sjiiau. Sure, Sir. Surrey, Syria. suth, since, after. suthe, after. sujej, shew. sujje sive suth the, after, since, afterwards. sutthernesse, wickedness, vileness. ideni sc. quod lujerness. suyd, followed, pursued. suyke, « traitor, seducer, knave, deceitful!, suykedhede, treachery. suyke dom sive suykedom, deceit, treason, treachery. suykedome sive suyke dome, deceit, treachery! suyje, very. suyje sore, very much, suyje ynou, very much. suyjer, faster. swaynes, swains, labourers. Ang. Sax. rpan. " Span, (inquit " Somnerus) olor, cygnus, a " swan. Belgis, swaen. item, " Bubulciis, subulcus, a cow- " heard, or ox-heard : one that " ploweth with oxen: also; a "hog -heard or swine -heard. " Chaucero nostro, swaine, ser- " vus. Generatim, vir ru. " dis, rusticus Sf robustus, " corpore ad laborandum ha. " bill Sf idoneo. A Swame, " or Country - Swaine. Hine " autem Anglo-Saxonbat-jpan, " hodie boat-swaine, proremige, " co scilicet qui in navi remis " propellendo laborat. Svein, " Danis priscis, teste Wormio, " juvenis. sweynes, szi-ains, young men. swike, traitour. swikedom, treachery, wicked. ness. swikeldom, treachery. swije, GLOSSARY. 719 swije, very, earnestly, greatly, exceedingly, very much, fast. swonke, laboured for. swore helde, swear to hold. sworre, sear. swykedom sive swykeldom, trea chery. swynch, labour. swynk sive swynke, labour. swyje, very much, very. sy, here. sybbe, cousins, relations. syde, side, part, sygte, sigh'd, vision. syker, safe, surely, secure, sure. sykerness, security. sykernesse, security, surety. sykeror, more secure. sykerore, more secure, securer. tykj, see. synje, mee, after, afterwards. sypptiol, ships full. syj, see, seeth. me syj, are seen. syje, times. sywe, follow, pursue. •ywed, followed. sywede, followed, pursued. syweth, followeth, follow, shew. sywi, follow, pursue, execute, sywy, follow. sywyde, followed. syxte, sixth, six. syxteje, sixteenth. syxty, pag. 400. six, ut ex Ar. constat, pariter atque e con- textu. laillage, taxes, tribute, tallage. take, committ. talate, to let, tale, number. te, to. tee, go, tug, betake. telle, esteem, regard, think. tern, offspring, (hine a teeming lass) issue, generation. tende, tended, tind, kindle, tinded, lighted. In the South and East Parts of England to tine or tin a candle is to light it. The Saxon word is cynan, accendere. Thence tinder. tene, sorrow, trouble, ten. terant, tearing. tethe, tenth. tejegede, taught, leach' d. p, the. Ja, that. p&l, though. Jan, -when, thence, then, the. thane, the. thaneue, thence, Janne, thence, then. Jannene, thence. Jare, where. Jat, than, that, the, before that, but, those, after, after that, if. that hii, but they, before they. Jat hii ne remuede, but they re moved. Jat he seyde, for he said, or because he said. Jat neuer eft he ne speke, that he did not speak ever after. Jay, though. pe, xvhen, then, the, they, or, she, those, thee, he, there, that. thee, the. peipe, theft. thegh, though. thei, though. Jelke, 720 GLOSSARY. Jelke, these. jen, the, the one. Jen anne, the one. Jenc he, think ye. thenche, think, think of, consider. JencheJ, think. Jenne, thence. Jeofje, theft. Jer,, there, where, their, the, thi ther, per wer wel ybogt, these (or they) were well bought. ther azen were, zeere against it. Jerafter, after that, after him. Jer as, where. Jenate, thereat. ther boute, thereabouts. Jere, there, where. Jere as, where, as there. ther of him loky (sive toky) wolde, would decree him to do in this matter. ther thorn, thereby. theruore, therefore, for it, upon that account. Jervppe, thereupon, upon it. Jes, this, the. these, this, Je selue, themselves. thesne, this. the ton, the 'one. thewe, bond, serving. Je wemen, the yeomen, common men. nisi maiis, Jewe men, i. e. serving men. Jey, though, till, that. Jike, this, that, these. thilk, this. Jilke, these, t hosr, this, that, then.. thing, things. this, those, that. po,then, when, the, they, those, that, so, a certain, even that, tho the, at the. tho thoure it, when it was. Jo me ys wombe rende, that his belly should be rended. tho that, so that. Joj, thought. thogh, when, though. Jolede, suffered. And even in Derbyshire to thole signifies ai this day to bropk or endure, and thole a while is stay a while. tholie, suffer, endure. Jolye, suffer, endure. thonc, grace, favour, thanks. Jonk, thanks. thoo, those. Jor, there. Jorte, feared. Joru, howj thorough, by, in, of. mest Joru all Jyng, most of all things. Joru wan, by whom. Jougte was, thought what was. Jour, through. jozte, p. 560. thought. Sed ma. Urn, Jorte, ut idem sit quod thoroughout. Jral, slave. thraldom, slavery. Jralhede, thraldom, slavery. Jraste, thrust. thretene, thirteen. Jrettene, thirteen. JretteJ sive Jretteje, thirteenth. Jreu, threw, zeas thrown. thritti, thirty. Jrowe, time, while, short time, very little time, uno oculi con. jectu inquit Skinnerus, quick. ly. A throwe in Robert of Brunne's Chronicle (Part I.) GLOSSARY 721 is the same as a while or a little while, where speaking of the. Answer of Merlin the Pro. phet's Mother to King Vorti. gem, he writes thus : Dame, said Je kyng, wel com be Jou, 1 Nedeli at Je I mot witte -how, Who Jan gate Ji sone Merlyn, & on what maner. was he Jin. His moder stode * a throwe & thouht, Are scho to Je kyng ansuerd ouht. Whan scho had standen a litelle ' wight, Scho said, " bi Jhesu in Mari light, " Jat I ne sauh him neuer ne knewe, " Jat this ** knaue on me s sewe. " Ne I ne wist, ne I ne herd, " What maner schap with me so 6 ferd. " Bot Jis Jing am I wele ' ograunt, " Jat I was of 8 elde 9 auenaunt. " One come to my bed I wist, " With force he me I0 liaised and kist. " " Als a man I him felte, " & als a man he me "welte. " Als a man he spak to me, " Bot what he was, myght I not se. "'" So ofte to my bed he cam, « Me ofte kist, in armes « nam, " & knewe me al* a man suld do. " Bifore, no '4 sijen, did neuer non so. " Jus gate conceyued I Jis knaue, " & als I wist told I gow haue. Pitta ma- tris Merlini ad Regem Vortiger- num. Jrye, thrice. Jrytty, thirty. Juder, thither. Jufje sive thuf the, theft. Julke, thilk, that, this, those, these. Julke sulue, that same, this same. ¦ Necessarily, by all means. - A .Mb. > Whit, .Me. « Boy, male child Placed begot. *ComValied,lay. i Warranted, avare, assured. * Age. . BeautifuU comely "Embraced, took hold by the Neck. From the Saxon half, collum, the neck. As. •'Wedded, moved. Ab Ang. Sax. /eaUWI «« frlban, ngere, dominan, imperafe, gmesse, Sfc. '3 Took. " Since. , Vol. II. A A 722 GLOSSARY. that very. py nnwe, thine own. Julie, this. Jys, these. thuman, yeoman, common man. tille, privately, compace. Robert thun, the, then, thou, thun deth, of Brunne in his Chronicle of ten the death, death. maketh use of this word for to, thurlyng, penetrating. and particularly al the latter end Jus, these. of the following Rhythms, about Juse, these. Carleon upon Usk, when he is put, that, the. speaking concerning the Acts of thwas, that was. King Arthur : Jei [the lordyngs] cpnseiled him his lpnd somoune. At Whitspnday tp do him croune At Karlion & Klamprgan, Did somond Jidir ilk a man. Karlion was Jat tyme riche, Rome & it likned liche. It standes on the water of Uske, To Seuerne renne bi bank & buske. In Uske men mot Jider wend ' Outlandes fer, Jat Jider wild Mend. On Je ' to side ran Jat ryuere, On Je tojer forest fulle of dere. Venison Jer was inouh. Plente of lisch in water Jei drouh. Large medes with gres plente, Lond to tille non better mot be. Two kirkes were in Je toun, That tyme had Jei grete renoun. Of Saynt Julie was Je * ton, & Je tojer of Saynt Aaron. Saynt Julie in martirdom gan die,. Nonnes were at his abbeie. At Saynt Aaron was Je bisshop see, Je hede kirke of Jat Cite, Jat of Arthure was foundoure, Did set it in Saynt Aaron's honour. Jer were chanons of clergie, Jat knewe wele of Astronomic ' Outlandish. » Land. 3 One Bide. * One. To GLOSSARY. 783 To knowe Je * sternes Jer wittes leid, & tille Arthure oft tymes seid, Jat what Jing Jat he was aboute, He suld spede withouten doute. .See above in voc. fordone. tillej, moveth. tijinge, tiding, tidings. to, the, too, lo, at, for, in, upon, of, when, then, according, two. to hym, to do him. to late ynou, much too late, to Mydwynter, at Christmass. to wanne power, too little power, want of power. to wel, too full, too much. to brae, brake or broke. to brak, brake. to brec, broke. to broke, broke. toe, took. to clef, cleft. to dasse, dashed in pieces. to dasshte, dasht in pieces. to deld, divided, separated. to dele, to be separated, to be di vorced, to distribute. to delede, parted, divided. to delj, divideth. to done, to do. to drawe, drawn, torn, withdrawn, draw, be drawn. to drawej, draw, torment. to drof, drove, drove away, put to flight. to drou, dragg'd, dreza, tore. to drowe, tormented, dragg'd, drew out. to dryue, drive away, drove. to fonge, received. to for, before. to fore, before. to gadere, together. to geders, 'together. to he we, hewed. to holden vp, to be held up, lo be kept up, to be made. tok, committed, gave, delivered. tok to loke, committed to look after. vtoke, took, delivered, committed, betook, would take, should lake. to kene, token. tokninge, token, sign. to\de,accounted,took,reckoned,told. to Ide of, cared fori took care of, accounted of, set by. ne tolde of, cared not for, regarded not. tolde her of gret despit, had great contempt of this, an gret deuyte tolde of hem, and took care of them with great duty, or very officiously (sive reverenti ally) took care of them, ne tolde 1 Jer of, esteem'd not thereof, cared not for it. to loke, to look after, to look to, to take care. tolj, cared, esteem'd. to lyghe, laughed. tome, time. ton, toe, toes. too, toe, two. ' Pro sterres. A A 2 top, 724 GLOSSARY. top, hair. to raunced, razed, rended, man gled. toret, the cup, top. tormens, torments' torment, tournament. tornemens,. tournaments. tornemiens, tournaments. to rof, was torn. to soje,, of a truth, to truth, to prove true. to sprad, spread. to Jenche, (puta,) namely, to Jenche on kunhede, p. 447. name ly for his unkindness. vel po test ita accipi, ut idem valeat quod, out of natural affection, vel, in consideration of the natural relation there was be. tween them, to twyght, twitch'd, pull'd to pieces. tou, tough. toumbe, to fall upon. to uor, before. touore, before. to vote & to hond, with feet and hands. tour, tower, issue, offspring. tpurment, tournament. tpuzt, tough, slowly. to ward, in ward, to keep. to wardi, to guard, to defend. towardy, to ward, to keep, to defend. towe, tough. tp wise, to direct, to govern, to manage. trauayl, labour. trauayleth, 'exerciseth, travelleth. trawe, draw; tre, tree, wood. treche, track, dance. tren, trees. trepass, trespass. tresche, tracks, a trench. tresnn, treason, treachery. trew, truth. triwe, truce. trossi, truss, pack up. trowed, believed, exspected,, thought. Vide Alexandri QU Logonomiam Anglicam, p. 64- Ed. 2das. trowede, understood. trowen, believe. troweth, believe, think. trughe, trow, think, believe. trufle, trifle. trusse, trusted. trychor, traitour. trysthors, traitours, treacherous. trywede, honesty. tte, at. tu, tzso. tueie, two. tuene, two. tuey, twice. tueye, twice, two. tueye sterreUj two starrs. tuo, too, two. tuo name, ls« names. turne, turned. tuye, twice. twei, two. twey, two. tyd, betides. tyde, time, tyde was so, bytyde, whatever came of it, cpme what would. tylde, turneth, moveth, turned,mo- ved. Et quidem tempore pra;- terito GLOSSARY 725 terito pptest accipi,p. 152. tylj, moveth, cometh. tyrauntye, tyranny. type, grant. ty>in§) tyding. tyjinge, tyding, tydings, news. Wng, tyding. tytynge, tydings, tyding. vacanns sive vacans, vacant. vagt, faultily, to no purpose, idly. vaire, fairly, honourably. vairore, fairer. vale, many, fall. valp, falleth. pro valj nimi- rum. vane, faim vantston, fontstone, font. AU Fonts were formerly of Stone, and some -of them were very fine. Such was that which some Years agoe stood in the Church of St. Peter's in the East Oxford, but was sacrile giously removed, and a much worse put in it's Place, as I have observ'd lately in my Preface to Leland's Collecta nea, where I have exhibited Stone that of King Edward the Confessour (being that, in which he was baptiz'd) ought most deservedly to be reckoned. Dr. Plot hath gi. ven a Draught of it 'in pag. 364. of his Natural History of Oxfordshire, and in Ch. X. §. 124. of that Work notes, tKat it stood in K. Edward the Confessour' s Chappel at Islip (a Draught of which, being no where else, I have published in my Preface to a Collection of Curious Dis courses) for many Ages, 'till being put, together with the Chappel, to some indecent at least, if not profane Use, was carefully and piously re. scued from it by some of the Right Worshipful Family of the Browns of Nether . Kid. dington near Woodstock, where my ingenious Friend the honourable Benedict Leo. nard Calvert, Esq. saw it in the Gardens of Sir Charles Brown, on Sept. 9. 1718. and took notice of the following , Inscription ' (omitted by Dr. Plot) then scarce legible, on a Draught of this Font. A. mong these old Fonts of the stand of it ; THIS. SACRED FONT. ST EDWARD. FIRST RECEAVD. FROM WOMB TO GRACE. FROM GRACE TO GLORY WENT. HIS. VIRTVOVS LIFE. TO THIS FAYRE ISLE BEQVETHD ¦ In Coll. nostris MSS. Vol. 75. p. 187.' A A 3 PRASE 726 GLOSSARY. PRASE AND TO VS BVT LENT. LET THIS REMAINE THE TROPHIES OF HIS FAME A KING BAPTIZE R ' FOM HENCE A SAINT BECAME. At the same time Mr. Calvert Part of tlie Font was this en- »bserv'd, that on the Reverse grav'd: THIS FONT CAME FROM THE KING'S CHAPELL IN. ISLIP. jFor my ozen Part, I never jyet" saw this old Font, which is truly a most venerable piece of Antiquity, and which I could wish were kept in a dry Place ; but it is very remark able, what ihe foresaid inge nious, and honourable Gen-. tleman told me, namely, that when struck, it sounds like a Bell, and that a certain Lady, when she us'd to feed Tur keys out of it, was deterr'd from that kind of Sacrilege by this Accident, viz. that all her Turkeys died. yantwarde, vauntguard. varej, fareth. varnde, burnt. yarj. fareth. vas, was. vassayl, idem quod wassail. vaste sive vast, fast, quickly, quick, apace, firmly. vastinde, fasting. vatte, fat. vaunt wardes, vdUnt- guards, * Sic. van-guards. vaw, glad, wel vaw, very glad. vawe, few, fain, willingly, willing, glad, gladly, joyfull, joyfully, readily. vawe that, as rea- dily as. vayre, fairly, fair, kindly, hand somely, plainly. vche, each, every, ' vecte, fetcht. veil, elder.' vel, skin, fell, happen' d. veld sive velde, field. velde, fell'd, threw down, felt, threw, velde adoun, fell'd or cast down. velle, fell, they fell. velony, villany. vemde, foam'd. vende, went. veniaunce, hurt, vengeance. ver, where, far, farther, as ver, as where, whither, ver & ner, far and near. verament, truly, verily. verbarnde sive verbarnd, burnt. verbed sive verbede, forbid. verbere. GLOSSARY. 727 verbere, forbear. verbroyde, foul, most wicked, monstrous. verclef, cleav'd. verde sive verd, feared, was mo ved, enraged. verde, army, forces, rout. he volde to such geant verdes lede vone vor o body, he would to such a gyant an army neglect to take, or to lead, for one body, i. e. he had rather have (or take, or lead) one man against such a gyant, than an whole army. vere wounded, for - wounded, quod idem ac simplex, wounded denotat, vel potius mueh wounded. ver gaf, forgave. ver gon, forgoe, let alone. TerSyte> forgot. verlore sive ver lore, forlorn, lost. verlyche, fairly. ver pryked, pag. 362. pricked, stabbed, adeo ut ver (sicut ali. bi etiam) nihil fere his in vo. cibus vale at ; quemadmodum Sf Anglo - Sax. r.ojupunben, sive poppunbob, idem est quod wounded ; Sf tamen were po. test significare, si non pro particula vocis pryked suma. tur. Nonnunquam etiam far signal, in quod Sf hic etiam potest denotare. verre, far. Verrore, farther, verrere nome, farther went. verrost, farthest. versake, forsaken. versoc, forsook. versok, forsook. verss sive uersse, fresh. verst sive verste, first. versuore, forszvorn. versuorye, forsworn people. verje, fourth, forth. verjuerj, farforth. ueruorj, farforth. veruoj, farforth. verwounded, much wounded. vet, feet. veteres, fetters. vette, fetcht, fetch. vette in, fetch out of. vewe, few. vi, we. vif, five. viftethe, fifteenth. vii, vile. vilenne, villany. villiche, vilely. vilte, vileness, disgrace. viniter, a vintner. viniterie, vinlry, tavern. vi sai, fooAr care, saw to. viue, five. vnclannesse, uncleanness. vnderfeng, receiv'd, entertain'd. vnder feng hym fayr y now, receiv'd him very civilly. vnder fong sive vnderfong, vel vnderfonge, receiv'd, undertook, take, receive. vnder jet, understood, understand. ing. Jat me ne vnder get in swykdom in no poynte, that men should not understand in the least, that what he did was out of treachery. A A 4 vnder. 728 GXOSSArtr. vndergete sive vnder gete, un derstanding, understand, under stood. vnder gite, get under. • vndergo, get. underking. Unbep - ong vel unbep - cingc A- Sax. " Re- 11 gulus" (inquit Somnerus) " a Prince, Lord, or Ruler "of a little country, a Duke, " an Earle, a pe-tty king. Jo. " 4. 49. item, Prorex, Vica- " rius Regis, a Viceroy. Belg. " onder - koninck." See my Preface to Heming's Char. tulary of the Church of Wor cester, §. xx. 'Tis unbep. cyninj in St. John, that Mr. Somner refers us to, but litil kyng in that which is called Wickliff's Translation (whereof I have an excellent MS. of the New Testament, being that which belong'd to the late hopefull young Gen tleman Edward Etterick, Esq. Fellow of New - Coll. which I have mentioned in p. cxxv. of my Preface to Camden's Eliii. and which I luckily pur chased after his death, that fell 1 out, occasioned by the small Pox and Purples, on Monday April 20. 1719. and he was buried on the 23. of the same Month in New. Coll. Chappel) and in the Tran slation we now use noble man, tho' ruler in others. The Greek is $ou;\h,iu>s, and regulus in the vulgar Latin. v vndername, excommunicated. vndernom, receiv'd, entertain' d. vnderstod, remembred, thought. vnderstode sive vnder> stode, con sider, remember , gave him toun. der stand, undertook, attempted, understood, would hearken to. vnderstod, understood. vnderstond, rememired. understbnde, be revenged, follow, take example, understand, to undertake. vnderstondej, consider, under stand. vnder Jat, about that time. vnderuenge, receive. vnder uonge sive vnderuonge, vel vnderuong, receive, receiv'd, entertain'd, undergo, under. take, undertaken. vnderuongo, receiv'd, acknow ledge!. vnderyede, understood. vndo, undone, opened, to undo, to annull, to disannull, to abro gate, to repeal. vndude, undid,' abrogated, abo lished, vnel, unheal, sickness, disease, ill, tnischief, distemper, in his dej vnel, in his last sickness or ill ness, vnele, unhealthy, ill, evil, asgre, difficultly. vnell, evil, ill. vnelle, evil, ill. vnelede, fell sick, sickned. ' Coll, nostr. MSS. Vol. 70. p. 195, 198. vn hende. GLOSS ARY. 729 yn hendelyche, unhandsomely. vnkonnyng, ignorance, unskill- fulness. vn kunde sive unkunde, unkind, unnatural, unrightfull, unlaw. full. vnkundede, unkindness. vnkyn dede, unkind deeds, un kindness. vnkyndehede sive vnkyndhede, unkindness. ynlawe, injustice. vn neje sive vnneje, scarcely, scarce, hardly, with difficulty. yn nome, untaken. vnrizt, injustice, wrong. vnrygt, unrighteousness, wrong. ynthonkes, unwillingness, by con. straint. vntuled, untilled. vn warned nere, should not be unwarned. unwrast, unrighteous. vnwre, uncover, discover. un wyt, foolishness, folly. vnywar, unawares. vol, full. vol well, full well. volwoxe, full grown. vond, found. vonde, try. vondej, tryeth. vone, to take, to lead. vonge, receive, take, to vang in some Parts of England is even now us'd for to answer at the Font as Godfather, particu larly in Somersetshire, where Mr. Somner in his Dictionary observes, that the Country People have this Expression, he vangd to me at the vant i. e. in baptisterio pro me suscepit. The Saxon Word is fengan, to take, to receive, to undertake. vor, for, forth, because, because of, upon account of, notwith standing, till, for that, for what, in respect of what, vor hem all. for all them, notwithstanding all of them.- vorbarnd sive vorbarnde, burnt, burned, being burnt. vorbed, forbid. vor brec, broke. vore, before, (ut p. 279. ubi ta. men potest idem etiam esse quod for, viz. vore Jat, for that. Et tamen vore rectius forsan omit, tas cum Ar.) fore, therefore, for them, hereof. voreward, forward, thence, for. ward. vorewarde sive uore warde, con. dition, covenant, agreement, league, bargain, compact. vor lay, lay with, was guilty of unlawful! copulation with. vor lore sive vorlore, forlorn, for lost, lost. vor sauy, to save, for to save. vorsoke, forsook. vorst, first. vorste, frost. At pag. 398. fresh denotat, id quod ex Ar. li quet. vorsuerye, forswear, abjure. vor suolwe, sivollow. vort, till, untiil, for to. vorte sive uor te, for to, till, untiil. vorj, 730 GLOSSARY. vorj, thenceforth, because, went forth, go forth. vor Janne, for this reason. vor Jey, for that, upon that ac. count. vortp, till. vprzef, forgave. ver zite, forgotten, forgot. vpt, foot. uou, few. voud, p. f>06. vowed, sed vpnd, i. erfound, malim. vourteje, fourteenth. veurty, forty. vouted, footed. uowe, foes. voweson^ advowson. vp, up, upon, with, by., according ¦ to, on, to, got up. vp to doun, up and down. vpard, upwards. vpe,, upon, vpe & thine, p. 502. upon thee and thine ; ubi the in' textu desideratur. vpen, upon. Here I must note, that in I. Maccabees IV. 15. upon is the same as about, or, as the vulgar Latin, usque'. So that there were slain of them, upon a three thousand men. Et ceciderunt ex illis usque ad tria millia virorum. But in the Gr. V.OA 'iitetroi, e£ a.v~Zv fU CtV&yUC. tpirxfKius. upe on, upon. vp frete, devour' d up. vp iholde, upheld. vppard, upwards. vppe, upon, above, open, vppe •weper,upon which,iipon whether. Yprightes, upright. vprizt, upright, directly. vprysynge sive vp rysyng, resurt rection. vp take, surrender up. vp walle, swell up. vr, otzr. ure, our. vrmynde, ran. vrne, run. vrning, running, rising. vrnst, runnest. vs, use. uvel, ill, evil, diseases, adeo ut sit pro unel. vuele, well, sick, uneasy, wel vuele, (pro wel vnele,) very badly, very ill. vns, us. nuste, zuist, kneze. vyfteje. fifteenth. vyfty, fifth. vyftyje, fifteenth. vyl, vile, foul. vylyche, vilely, fou/y. vynde, find. vyss, fish. vyssares, fishers. vyte, knots. vyue, five. W. wad, zchaf. wader, father. A\adyr, zsaler. waillaway, aluss. walle, walls. warn, whom, zchich, whence, to warn, of which, to what. wan, uhen, which, whence, where. as, whom, gat, got. wan so, to whom. GLOSSARY. 731 whomsoever, wan he byioc, to whom he committed. wanede, decreas'd. wanene, zohence. wanhope, despair., wanne, when, whence, gat, got, wan, won. of wanne Jei, of what country they were, ^whence they zvere. wanne ther of, diminished thereby. yard, toward. warde, watch, ward, keeping, cu- ftpdy, guard, guardianship, in warde, in custody, in keeping. Jat in warde hym were bytake, that were committed to him in ward or in trust. warded, should ward, defend. wardein, guardian. wardeins, wardens, keepers. wardi, defend. wardy, keep, defend. ware, ward, defend, where, whi. ther. ware so, where so, where soever. wareson, reward, riches. Vide garyson. war inne, wherein. warnesture, fortification, defence, garrison. >var of, whereof. war Joru, whereby, wherefore. jvarto truste, to what to trust. waruore, wherefore, for it. garyson, reward, settlement. was, whose, which, zoays, whom, 'twas, was. was be dene, continued. wasseyl, wassail, sive wosehail. psf hale, pxr hslle, per« hale, salve, salve sis, sis sal- _ vus, ave. God save you, God speed you, God bless or be with you, God prosper you, all hail, your health, a health, be mer ry, &c. [See queme.] In Chronico Caxtoni z il b ha bemus, And when they shuld take ther leue of him. a squyer that was called Stephen that was ful? priue with the for- said Roger thurgh his coun sels yaf them alT such a dnnke that the lest of them all slept ii. dais & ii. nyghtis. Sed in Cod. Ar. pro such a drinke legit uf suche a wassaylle to drynk. Upon this occasion I cannot but insert a remark. able Fragment (about the Name and Division of Eng. land) that was given me by my ingenious and worthy Friend Mr. John Murray, be. ing one of the Vellam Frag. ments that I have mention'd in §. II. of my Discourse at the end of Heming't Char. tulary : * * * * ^ * » * * ***** ***** And now he ys alle so hole y fonde, As whan he was y leyde on grounde. And 732 GLOSSARY. And gyf ge wille not ' trow me, Goth to Westmystere, and ge mow- se. In that tyme Seynt Albon, For Goddys loue, 2 tholed martirdome, And xl. gere with schame & * schonde Was 4 drowen oute of Englond. In that tyme * wetej welle, Cam ferst wassayle & drynkehayl In to this londe, with owte 6 wene, Jurghe a mayde 'brygh and 8 schene. Sche was 9cleput mayde ynge. For hur many dothe rede & synge Lordyngys '°gent & free. This lond hath y hadde namys thre. Ferst hit was cleput Albyon, And syth " for Brute Bretayne a non. And now ynglonde clepyd hit ys, Aftir mayde ynge y wysse. Thilke ynge fro Saxone was come, And with here many a moder sonne. For gret hungure y understonde ynge went oute of hure londe. And thorow leue of oure kyng In this lande sche hadde restyng, As meche lande of Je kyng sche " bade, As with a bole hyde I3 me mygth sprede. Je kynge •¦* graunt he bonne. A strong castel sche made sone. And when Je castel was al made, Je kyng to the mete sche 's bade. The kyng graunted here a none. He wyst not what thay wold done. And sayde to *6 ham in this manere, " The kyng to morow schal ete here. •Believe. « Suffered. 3 Confusion. * Driven, drawn. s Know ye. 6 Doiih*. 'Bright. • Fair. « Called. ,0 Gentle. " From, because of. " Requested, desired. '3 Men might. *» Granted her request. '6 Bid. "Them. » He GLOSSARY. 733 " He and alle hys men, '' * Euer one of vs and one of them, " To geder schal sitte at Je mete. " And when thay haue al most y ete, " I wole say wassayle to the kyng, " And sie hym with oute any *lesyng. " And loke that ge in this mauere " Eche of gow sie his ' fere. And so sche dede thenne, Slowe the kyng and alle hys men. And thus, thorowgh here 4queyntyse, This londe was wonne in this wyse. J Syth a non sone an 6 swythe Was Englond i deled on fyue, To fyue kynggys trewelyche, That were nobyl and swythe ryche. That one hadde all the londe of Kente, That ys free and swythe gente. And in hys lond bysshopus tweye. Worthy men 8 where theye. The archebysshop of Caunturbery, And of Roohestere Jat ys mery. The kyng of Essex of 9 renon He hadde to his porcion Westschire, Barkschire, Soussex, Southamptshire. And ther to Dorsetshire, All Cornewalle & Deuenshire. All thys were of hys IO anpyre. Je kyng hadde on his honde Fyue Bysshopes starke & strong. Of Salusbury was Jat on, } * * * * * * * * & * * * * 1 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 1 Every. » Lye. * Companion. 'Were. 9 Renown, 'Empire. * Stratagem. 5 After. 6 Very. * Divided. wast, 734 GLOSSARY. wast, fast. wat, hap, luck, which. wat loker [/. lokej] yt agte her ? and what does it at all signify here ? wate, fate. watloker^ much rather. watte, wet. wawe, move. wayn, waggon. wayje, wrath. we, wo, when, welt, with, we, zeere. we ne weneth, -we think not. we nome, p. 506. were or was taken. wed, waded, went, passed. wedde, pledge. weddes, pledges. wede. Jeba^ (vestes,) deaths, ha bit, garments. Item pledge, token, sign.- uti etiam, needs. wede, be mad, to rage. wedew, widow. wel, much, very, too, well, full, in good plight, a great deal. wel lygtloker, more easily. ,\vel mo, many more, much more, very many more, many besides. wel vnneje, .very unwillingly. wel more, much more. wel the more vole, by far the more people, wel vawe, very gladly, wel bytyme, well be times, very soon, welwonder, very wonderfull. wet vnder stonde, well inform' d. wel vn derstod of, was well appriz'd of, wel narwe, very narrow ly, very strictly. wel muche wo, very much wo, very much harm, wel vawe, very readily, vbry cheurfully. wel iwar, ve* ry wary, wel softe, very soft. ly. wel sore atferd, very much afraid. weld, wield, govern. welde, (silva,) wold, wood, a fo* rest, a lawne, a woody place. welkne, loft. welle, fell. Welle, very, welle many a toune, a great many towns. wemen, yeomen, common men. wemme, wem, blemish, spot, blot, speck. They use the word a wem, for a small fault, hole, decay, or blemish, especially in Cloth, in Essex to this day. wemmy, defile, pollute. wemmynge, hurt, ab Angl. Sax. pern, qUod videsis. w-en, when. wende, go, fiy, went, ween'd, think, thought, suppose, sup. pos'd, desired, should go, would come, would go, to go, gone, turn'd, turn, to turn, lie thought, she thought, wende out, should go out. he wende wel him sulf to honge soue, he verily thought, that himself should be hang'd soon, wende be, thought to be. wenden, go. wene, ween, think. wened, altar. wenej, think. wenne, go. wenyj, thinketh, think. weoden, weeds. weoles, wheels. wep, wept, weep. wepe, wept. wepinde, GLOSSARY. 735 wepinde, weeping. wepne, weapons. wepude, weeping. wepynd sive wepyude, weeping. wer sive Jer, zshetlier, where, when. werd, word. were, might be, may be, should be, would be, where, was, wast, whe ther, weary, should, might be, be. were vndo, should be un. done ; should be disannulled. werede, wearied, toiled. werny, afflict, grieve, offend. werre, war, war upon, should be. werry, make war upon, war. werse, worse, worst. werste sive werst, first. wery, very. wess sive wesse, washed. wether, whether. wetyng ye, assuring you, making you to know. weue, wave, go. A. Sax. pagian, movere. weued, altar. wex, arose. weylaway ! well-awaij ! alass ! wham, whom, which. whanne, when. whelie, well. whenne, whence. wher, whether. while, will. whilome, (o\im,) ab A. Sax. hpilon, aliquando, inquit Skinnerus, sometime. whith, with. wi, while. willesfull, wilfull, evil. Willi, to will, to manage. wilned sive wilnede, willed. wimman wrenche, women's guile, a woman's guile. winne, get, vanquish, overcome. wist, knew, might know. wiste, kept, wist, knew, under. stood. wit, mock, a wit legat, a mock legat. wite, defend, keep, rule, know. knows. witesone, whitson. witethe, know. wijout en ende sive with outer* ende, without end. withsede, withsaid, gainsaid. withsegge sive with segge, with. say. witie, keep, defend, guard. witye, defend. wlzt, creature, man, wight. wo, who, one, grief, grieve, sorry, wo, affliction, plague, harm, loss, distempers, wickedness, wo so, who so, whoever, whosoever, as wo sej sive seyj vel seij, «j one saith, as the saying is, as if one should say. wo sey ? who hath seen ? who ever saw ? wo Jat mygte, whosoever might, wo seyj, who saith, one saith^. the saying is, one may say., wod, mad, angry, madness. wode, mad. wodemen, madmen. woder, whither. wog, wo, loss. woke, week. wokes, weeks. wol, full, well. wolde, wild, would. wolde he s* 736 GLOSSARY. so- nolde, no. wole, zoill. wolle, would, will, zeool. wolpakces, woolpacks. wolton, i:ilt. worn, loss. whether he would or woode wroth, mad with anger. wop, zbeeping. worderliche, p. 345. (vel potius wonderliche) wonderfully. worl, world. worre, war upon, war. to worn Je Jele Je _ worrede, warred, warred upon, kynedom, p. 354. to the great loss of the kingdom. Sf in marg. to wrothur heie helde the kyne dom, held the kyngdom lo it's great loss. wombe, belly. womede, zeombed. won, bobt, remedy, store, plenty, got, trouble, of lujer won,- by reason of sad trouble, out of worn, war. robbed, worried, to be worried- in the North is the same as to be choak'd. Wopian in the old Saxon is to wander, to stray or go astray; and Jejugean is to provoke to wrath or anger, to- wrong or abuse, to trouble, mo lest or vex, to werry or wurry ive worry. meer concern. wond, found. me wond, men found, were found. vronde, found, contrived, won, zean. wondede, tryed, endeavoured. wonder, zvondrous, zoonderfull. wonderliche, wonderfully. wone, custom, accustomed. wonede sive woned, continued, tarried, dwelt, lived, found. In the North the word wonne or wun signifies to dwell even now. So they say, where won you, i. e. where dicell you ? Ab Anglo. Sax. punian sive gepu. man, habilare,frequentare. woneden, lived, dwelt. wonej, continueth, decreaseth. woniyng, dwelling, habitation. wonke, weeks. wonye, dwell, live, inhabit. wonyej, dwell. wonyng sive wonynge, habitation, dwelling. worry, war upon, disturb, worry, war, make war. worshipliche, worshipfully,- ho. nourably. worst, shalt be. worten, zcorts. worj, will be, shall be, shall have, he will be^ worthy, forth, go forth, worj understonde, will be remembered. worje, be, shall be, will be, wrath, angry. & let hym worje all out, and let him be altogether at his own will. wor Jere, shall there be. worje J, shall be, shall wax. worji, honour. wost, knowest, would'st. that thous us wost abbe au honge, that thou would'st have hang'd us. wot, know, knoweth, knows. wote, know, zcot, take care, knetef knows. wotest, GLOSSARY. 737 wotest, knowest. wojer, whether. wou, wrong, wo, loss, grief, hurt. wouk, weeks. wouke, week, weeks, wounde, wounded. wounden some, some of his wounds. woute, without. wow, damage, wo. wowg, wo. wrake, vengeance, revenge. < wrast, wrest. Ab Angl. Sax. to extert or pull away by vio lence. Many knyght of sadelle was kast, & many stede with him was wrast, & many ojer went o stray, Je bidelle broken sadelle away. Rob. of Brunne's Chron. in K. Arthur, wrajjed sive wrajjede, angred, f Thes scaterand scottys hold I displeased. wraththe wod, down right anger. wrecche, miserable, wretched, wretch. wrecchede, wretchedness, misery. wrecched hed vel hede, wretched ness, misery. wrecchelyche, wretchedly, mise. rably. wrech, vengeance. wreche, revenge, the revenge, vengeance, the vengeance, mi sery, wretchedness. wrechede, misery, wretchedness. wrechede hed, wretchedness. wrechedom, wretchedness. wreke, avenged, revenge, avenge. wrenqhe, dolus, trap, deceit, craft, guile. Ip Caxton's Chronicle, after K. Edward the First's men had taken, Berwick, 'tis said, these rhythms were spoke by the English by way of deri sion : Margan did after conseile, & wrnuht him self to wrojerheile Vol. II. b n for sottis, of wrenches vn ware. Erli in a mornyng, in an euelle tymyng, went ye fro Dun- barre. But for wrenches we have (not so rightly) wrec- ches in the Prose Additions to the MS. of Rob. of Glouc. in the Heralds Office. For thus the words are there : Jis skyterende Scottes held vs. for sottys, of . wrecches vn. war. Erly in A morwen. yng, in an yuel tymyng, ydryue Jey were fro Dun bar. wrog, wroth. wrothe, angry, loss, to wroje heie, to the loss of health or ' safety. Et sic etiam wrother- hele, Sf wrothur heie. Neque aliter his in versibus Robertus de Brunne (in parte prima Chronical) : He 738 GLOSSARY. He passed Humber, destroied Je Ipnd, & brent & rebbed alle Jat he fond. Condage herd it sene » seie, He dight his pste tp stpp his weie. Margan herd telle, Jat Cpndage ' Com with grete oste & outrage. He turned bak bigan to fle South fro cuntre to cuntre. Fer in to Wales fled Morgan, & Condage folowed, & hym ouer ran, & Jer in Wales Morgan slouh. Jorgh Jat has it name nowe. Clpu Morgan is now Je name, 'For Morgan died in Jat same. Deinde de Romanorum loquela habens, hunc in modum scri- quadam ad Belinum Sf Brennum, bit : cum ipsis pugnantes, sermone'm To gow it was a wikke conseile, Jat ge saile se fulle wrojerheile. With suylk vpbraid Jei Jan zmissaid; & grete strokes on Jam laid, Obak ageyn ijei did Jam go, & did Jam bray & crie for wo. wrothore, wrather, more angry. misfort une ? wuch ononers ? hozs ; And here it must be noted, that great honours? wuch alf turn for prottore in p. 465. I think he nuste Jo, which part to turn should be read prottore, i. e. to he knew not then. wrather, which is an easy mis- wuche, what. take, the Saxon p being so much wuche stonde, withstand. like a p. wuderward, whitherward, whither. wrojje, wrath, in wrath, in anger, wule, A. Sax. hpile, while, same. angry, enraged. time, a while, formerly, a while wste, knew. ago, in pld time, in days of wu, why, how, that. yore. ¦wuch, philc, what, wuch so, who wurche, work. ever, who so ever, what so, wurne, fail. whatsoever, wuch mys auen, wurnde, denyecL ture? what misadventure or wurth, worth. ' Said. » Spoke against them, or said contrary to them. wurje, GLOSSARY. 739 wurje, .worthy. wuste, known, kept, warded, go. verned, wist, know, knew, de. fended, would or should keep, might know, understood, held, knowing. wutej, know. wycke, mortal, Wicked. wyckemen, wicked men. wygtes, creatures, animals. Angl. Sax. pihc, ' i. e. creatura, ani. mal. ealle cpice pihca, omnia animalia, sive all living crea tures. The word is commonly spoke of men. So that no wight of the stooke roiall, By statute olde tym ye shuld no man seen at all In purpil] clad, but othyr kynge or qwene. In hold tym past thus it hath bene seen.. None but Kings and Queens wore purple in old time. Lydgate\ Life of the Virgin Mary MS. penes amiciss. V. Tho. Rawlinsonum, quem qui dem Codicem jam supra notavi [in voc. clerc] longe emendatio- rem esse, quam Caxtoni editio- nem typis excusam. wyle, sometime, formerly, a while ago. wylnede sive wyllnede, willed, de sired. wylnej, willeth. wylny, will, desire. wympel, a kenher or veil. wynde, go. wyne, in trouble. wys, / wish. wyst, should keep. wyste, knew. wyt, with, knowledge. wyte, know, ward, keep, defend, tell, understand, white. wytej, know, keep, defend. wyj, in. Nam wyj processyon (p. 406.) idem est quod in pro cession. wyje, in. wyje kynge's daye Vor- tyger, in the days of king Vor- tiger. wyjerwyne, adversary. wytie, continue, keep, betake. wyttesonetyd, Whitsontide. There are many opinions about the original of the Name of Whitsontide, all which I shall here forbear noting, unless it be one, which is not taken notice of by our common Etymologists, but occurrs in foi. liiii.a. of a very rare book {given me by that curious young Gentleman, my Friend, Mr James West of Balliol-Coll. and was) printed in 8vo. by Winken de Worde, in ihe late dwelling House of his Master William Caxton in King's Street Westminster. This Book is call'd Sermons lin the Prologue (for it consists of a Course of Homilies, in See Somner'» Sax. Diet, in voce, BB 2 ehich 740 GLOSSARY. which are many odd Stories) and is said to be taken out of Legenda Aurea: and be cause it speaketh of all the high feasts of the Year, in the Prologue it is said, I wyll and praye that it be called festyvall. And indeed it generally goes by no other Name than Festi. vail among curious Men, who are very inquisitive after Copies of it. The Words to our pur pose are these ; 1 In die pentecostes. fjTOOD men & wymmen this day is called Wytsonday | by cause the holy ghoost brought wytte and wysdom in to Cristis discyples | and so by her prech- yng after in to all cristendom. Thenne maye ye vnderstonde that many hath wytte | but not wysdom. For there ben many that hath wytte to preche well | but there hen few that haue wys dom to do well. , There be many wyse prechers & techers | but her slyuyng is no maner thyng after her prechynge. Also there be many that labour to haue wytte and connynge | but there ben fewe trauaylleth to come to good lyuynge. For who so hath wytte & connyng to gete good with fayre subtyll wordes be they neuer soO false | he is wyse | but wytte of holynesse is not set by. v For he that can gete good falsely' with knackis and mowes he is a wyse ma | but he that for- saketh the wytte of this- world is a fowle. wytye, keep, defend. wytyj, know. Y. yaf, gave. yarkede, prepared. ybe sive y be, been, desired, bid, y bede, desired, bid. y bo, 6een. yboned, boned. ybore, born. ybrogt, are brought, are taken, ybroke, broken. yc, J. y cagt, caught, catch'd. ych, I. ych drede, I fear, ych wene, I ween, I think. ychabbe, I have, ychabbe yseyd, / have said. ychelle, J will. ychcholle, / shall. ychylle, I will. y cholle sive ycholle, I will, I shall. ychpt, I wot, I know. y cleped, called, y clepu, called. y clepud, called, y cluped sive ycluped, called. yclupej, called. y come sive ycome, come. ycorue, cut up, rooted up, ydemd, judg'd, condemn' d. ydemed, GLOSSARY. 741 ydemed, condemned. ydo sive y do, done, ended, made, he made, committed, put, un. done, fought, done to, to do. ydone, undone, done. ydriue, driven. ydryue, derived, brought, drove, driven. ydygt, ordained, set, pilch'd. yede, went. See eode. yegged, edged. yeme, aim, heed, care. yerdes, rods. yeue, gave. yfagt, fat. y fere, together. yfleynd, banished. yflou, fled, banished, drove. y flowe sive yflowe, fled. yfloynd, put to flight. yfonded sive y fonded, tryed, es- say'd, experienced, wel yfond ed, very expert. yfuld, fill'd. ygadered, gathered. ygete sive y gete, eat. ygeue, given. ygo, gone. ygolde, yielded. ygurd, girded, girt. ygyne, given. ygyue, given. yharded, hardened. y heled sive yheled, arrayed, co vered, oyled, anointed. yhent, kept off, stopp'd. yhered, praised. yholde sive y holde, holden, held, accounted, used, reckoned. yholde vp, held up, kept up, sprung up. yholpe, help'd. yhote sive yhote, called. yhure, hear, heareth, he would hear. yknowe, acknowledge, known. y kud sive ykud, known. ylad, carried, translated, oyled, anointed, led. ylaste, lasted. ylef, believe. yleuede, believed.. yliche sive y liche, alike, like. yloked, oi'dained. y lome sive ylome, olim, aliquando, nunc, whilam, formerly, some time, sometimes, some time ago, for, heretofore, some while, one while, lately, soon, often, frequently. y lore sive ylore, lost. ylych, like. ylyche, like. ym, it. ymad, made. y menged sive ymenged, vel y mengd, mingled. ymone, in many, in more than one. yn, to. ynabbe, I have not. ynam non, I am none, ynam nogt, I am not. yne ssalr / shall or will not. y nele, I will not. ynelle, I will not. y nome sive ynome, taken, given, got. y not sive ynot, I wot not, I know not. y nou sive ynou, enough, much, very much, very, a great deal. yoblyged, bound. b b 3 yoe, 742 GLOSSARY. yoe, joy. yolde, yielded. yor, the old. y paid, pleased. y paied, pleased. ypayd sive y payd, pleased, y payed, pleased. y pigt, pitched. yplygt, plighted, promised. yponyted, pointed. ypoused, espoused. yproued, proved. yprowed, approved. ypyned, starved, pined. yrad, advised. yre, iron, anger, her, hair, irons, fetters. yrede, praised. yrest, rested. yreys, Irish. ys, his, them, it. y say sive ysayj saw, he saw, was seen. yse, see, saw, maist see. ysed, said. yseld, seal'd. ysend, sent. ysene, seen, be seen, to be seen, to be known. ysej sive y sej, see. y sey sive ysey, seen, saw, seeing, see. y seye sive yseye, seen, saw, saw. est, seeing, should see. * y siwed, followed. ysmered, besmeared, anointed. ysmyte, smote. ysode, sodden, boyl'd. y some, simul, welcome, seamed, agreeable, together, at once. y sond, sent. yspend, spent, yssape, shape, form, yssend, shent, confounded, dis. pers'd, spoiled, brought to con. fusion. yssent, spoiled, confounded. yssewed, shewed. yssote, shot. yssryue, shriven, confess'd. ysucj, see. ysuope, swept. y suore vel ysuore, sworn, ysuore holde ojes sive ysuore helde othe, szcorn or taken othes to hold or be true. ysuowe sive yswowe, in a swoon, swoon'd. y swike, deceive. ysyb, akin. yje, thrive. yjen, lusty. y Joled, suffered. ytol, told. yuelde, felt, feel'd. yuet, fetcht. yuman, yeoman, common man. yuolled, baptized, bote hii yuol- led, except they were baptized. yuortrou, prwsumptuous, over. confident. Jat yuortrou Jou art more to me of Jy brojer dej, that thou art too mistrustfull of me, as if I were the cause of thy brother's death. yusteyned, sustained. yut, yet. yuyled, defiled. y war sive ywar, aware, take care. y wemmed, hurt, spotted, damaged. ywend, gone, come. j went, GLOSSARY. 743 y went, turned, changed. y wist, kept. ywoned, wont, used, used to be. y worred, made war upon, warred upon. ywort, wrought. y worje sive yworje, work, do, manage, to be, be. yworjje, be. ywounde, were wounded. ywox, grown. ywrye sive y wrye, arrayed. y wust sive ywust, kept, defended. ywylned, willed, desired. y wys sive ywys, certe, certainly, surely. y wyte sive ywyte, know, under. stand. y yete, eat. zare, ready. zarkede, prepared, made ready. zat, gate. zej Uei yeai so. zef, gave. zelde, yield, yielded. zer, year, years. zere, year. zerne, earnestly. zeue, give, gave. zifth, giveth. zimmes, gemms, jezoells. zolde, yielded, should yield. zonge, young. zut, yet, tho. Jat nas nozt Je zut itake, that was not as yet taken. zute, yet, BB 4 INDEX. ?44 INDEX. .Ti-Bbendone abbey built p. 281 Abbess (an) married 484 Acres taken by K. Richard I. 487 Adelbold (K.) 262 Adelbrygt (K.) 262 Adelred (K.) 262. his Exploits against the Danes 262, 263. he dies, and is buried at West minster 264 Adrian the emperour 72. tames the Jews ibid. Aeldred, or Ethelred, made king 289. grievously whipp'd with Wax Candles by his Mother, when he was a Child, which made him hate Wax Candles Cver after 290. defiles the Font at his baptism ibid, is crown'd by St. Dunstan, but not very readily ibid, is strange ly perplex'd by the Danes, ac cording as St. Dunstan pro- phecied pf him 291. his Spn Edmund Irpnside np Bastard 292, 293. K. Ethelred gives a great Sum pf Money to the Danes, to go* back into their own Country, 294. but they return again ibid, which is a great Affliction and Plague to him ibid, upon the death nf his first Queen he marries Em. ma, Sister tp the Duke of Normandy 294,255. by whom he hath two Sons Alfred and St. Edward 295. orders all the Danes to be kill'd on St. Brice's day ibid, gives Swane 30000. 1. to return to Den- mark 297. raises a very great Army ibid, but to little pur pose against the Danes 297, 298. sends his two young Sons Alfred and St. Edward, with their Mother, into Normandy 300. goes to Normandy, and stays. there 'till Swane was dead ibid, his Return ibid. lyes sick at Cosham 301. his Death ibid. ./Elthryth. See Elfred. Ages (seven) of the World 9 Albanak 23 Albon (St.) 82 Aid red, Alfred or Alured, elder Brother of K. Edward the ••Confessor, murdered perfidi ously, with his Companions, by E. Godwin at Guilford 326, 327. Alemaine. See Alimaine. Alexander, bishop of Lincoln, imprisoned by K. Stephen 449, 450. and forced to sur render his Castle of Newark to the King 449. and another noble INDEX. 745 > noble Castle 450. at first a Builder of Castles, and after wards of Minsters of Religion ibid. Alfen. See Alphege. Alfred (King) 264. anointed at Rome ibid, fights a great ma ny Battles with the Danes ib. is brought very low by them ibid. St. Cuthbert appears to him ibid, after which he prospers mightily against the Danes 265. makes peace with some of the Danes 266. is Godfather to Gurmund the Dane ibid, but then other Danes are his bitter Enemies ibid, whom nevertheless he brings to shame ibid, his Ex cellencies ibid, divides his land int<> Hundreds and Tythings 267. raises many Abbeys ibid. dies, and is buried at Win chester ibid. See Aldred. Alfyfe, Mother of K. Edgar, builds Shaftsbury Abbey 284 Alfyfe, Mother of St. Edw. the Martyr. .See Elfred. Alimaine or Alemaine (Henry of) born 527. murdered at Viterbium 571. Allectus sent against Carausius 79. and slays him in battle ibid, after which he himself is beat, and slain by Asclepiod 80. Allen (Tho.) 009,610,611 Alphege's or Alfen's (St.) body inshrined at Canterbury 319 Alured. See Aldred. Alyngton 713 Amba parte e Galfr. Mon. 184 Ambresbury, the great Stones upon the Down there are brought out of Ireland 148. Ambresbury Nunnery founded 291 Analaf, King of Northumber land 272. comes as a Musi. tian into King Athelstan'g tent ibid. Androge and Tennant K. Lud's sons 47. Androge made Earl of Kent 48. Androge, Earl of Kent, his difference with K. Cassibel 53, 54. his Letters to Julius Cassar, . inviting him into England 54. See An. drow. Androw, or Androge, King of Lesser Britain 101. assists Greater Britain ,102. Anselm, Archbp. of Canterbury, fiyes out of England, for the wickedness of K.William Ru fus 417. his dream of William Rufus 420. is restored to the Archbishoprick by Henry I. 422. Antioch (Siege of) 399 Antonine the emperour 72 Arches (Siege of the Castle of) 409 Armorike, how the country thereof took the Name of Bri tain 92, 94 Arthur, Earl of Britain, asserts his right to the Crown of England 492. but is taken prisoner by K. John ibid, and comes to an untimely end 493 Arthur (King) begot 159. and his- 746 INDEX. his Sister Anne 161. he is made King at Cylycestre 166 goes against the Saxons, and beats them 167. and after that besieges their Captain Colgrin in York 168. sends Cadour, Earl of Cornwal, a- gainst Baldulf, Colgrin's bro ther, ibid, and Baldulf is beat 168. provides himself of pow er against Theldryk or Chel- dryk 169. and beats him 170. makes a covenant with his enemies 171. which they break ibid, and are thereupon pursued by Arthur 172. his Speech upon that occasion to his men ibid, his Arms 174. his Sword Calybourne ibid. beats his enemies near Bath ibid, in which battel Colgrin, Baldulf and Teldryk or Chel- dryk are slain 175. goes to Scotland to assist his Nephew Howel, King of Little Britain 176. and discomfits the Scots 177. who become subject to him 178. makes three kings ibid, marries a noble Wife, Guerwar or Gunnore by name 179. goes to Ireland, and conquers it ibid, wins Iseland ibid, and Gothland 180. aud the Orcades ibid. lives afterwards for twelve Years in the greatest Splen dour and Magnificence, and in such regal State, as he had not his peer at that time ibid. wins Norway 182. and Den mark ibid, his Acquisilions in France 183. where he fights sin gly with Duke Follon or Frolle 184. and at last kills him 186. after he hdd wan France, he gets Normandy and Aungeo ibid, he settles all things in France, and returns to England 187. his round table ibid, the Knights of his round table 188. this Feast of the round table kept by him, in the greatest Splendour, at Carleon, at Whitsonetide 187, 189. at which time he is there crown'd 189. and at the same time his Queen is crowned also 190. at this Feast the Ladies sat in a separate Place from the Men, according to an old Bri tifh custom ibid, the variety of Exercises and Sports at this Feast 192. K. Arthur gives the Archbishoprick of Carleon to his Uncle St. David ibid, and disposeth well of other Bishop. ricks 193 messengers to him from Rome ibid, who deliver to him a letter from Lucie, the Se nator of Rome ibid, his counsel upon that occasion 195. the great Assistance that he hath against the Romans 200. his Answer to the messengers ibid, entrusts the Land with Modred, and with his Queen 201. his strange dream at Sea 202. the signification of it ibid, comes to Barbesflet 203. hears of a strange gyant ibid, is conducted by his companions, Bedwer and Gay, (who had before inform'd themselves about him), towards the INDEX. 747 the gyant 203^ 206. encoun. ters him 207. and kills him 208. the Emperour comes a- gainst him in France 209. commands Lucye the Senatour to go out of France ibid. the great courage of three of his knights 209, 210. and of six thousand of his Britains 211. he rewards them all well 212. sends the prisoners to Paris ibid, lays an ambush- ment for Lucye 213. the com forting of Arthur to-his men 214. a bloudy battel between hhn and Lucye the Senatour 215. in which he comes off victorious 219. and afterwards orders the Lords to be ho nourably buried ibid, how he was betrayed by his Ne phew Modred 220. he fights with Modred,' and puts him to flight 221. his Queen be comes a Nun at Carleon ibid. he encounters Modred again, and beats him 222. after which he pursues Modred to the Water of Camble in Corn- wal ibid, where in a bloudy battle he cuts off Modred's Head 223. but is mortally wounded there 224. and dies soon after ibid, his bones found at Glastonbury ibid. & 478. Aruirag 62. succeeds his brother Guider in the kingdom of Britain 63. beats the Empe rour Claudius 63, 64. kills Haym the traitour 64. is be sieged by Claudius at Win chester ibid, agrees with Clau dius 66. and marries Claudi us's daughter ibid, the Go vernment of Britain left to Aruirag, upon Claudius's re. turn to Rome 67 Asclepiod (K.) 80. fights with and kills Allectus ibid, he is crowned 81. slain in battle by Cole Earl of Colchester 83 Assesdone or Asshedoune, the Churches built there by K. Knute 319. Assesdoune 263. Assesdoune (battels of) 303. Assesdoune sive Asshedoune, hodie 3aton prope JHSallings foro, in agro Bercheriensi 296 Asshedoune. See Assesdone Sf Assesdoune. Astrild, Locryn's Concubine 25 whom he afterwards makes Queen 26. Astrilde and her 1 daughter Auerne both drown. ed in the Severne 27 Athelstan made and crowned King 271. a good Prince ibid. builds many Abbies ibid, his success against his enemies 272. a treacherous design a. gainst him 273. overcomes the Danes, Scots, and Irish, in a great battel at Brymesbury or Brunnesbury 274. throws down the castle of York ibid. his charity 275. makes the Welsh pay tribute to him ibid. confines the Welsh and the Cor. 748 INDEX. Cornish within certain bounds ibid, gives part nf the holy Cross to Malmesbury 276. where he is buried ibid. Athelstan, King Ethelred's sis ter's son, slain 297 Athelwold (St.) builds Abbing- ton abbey 281. and becomes the first abbat thereof him self 282. is made bishop of Winchester ibid, he and K. Edgar build many religious houses at Winchester 282, 283. St. Athelwold's death 292 Athelyng a name for the right- full heir to the Crown 35 1 Atte Hene 639 Auerne 26 Augustus made Emperour 60- describes and taxes all the World ibid, calls one Month after his own Name 61 Aunsel, K. of Scotland, his coun sel, upon occasion of Lucie Senatour of Rome's letter to K. Arthur 199. he is ,slain 221 Aurelius the Emperour 72 Aurelius and Uter their arrival at Totj^es 134. to the great joy of the Britains, to whose Succour they came ibid. Au relius is made King by them ibid, besieges K. Vortiger in a castle in the East end of Wales 135. takes the castle & burns it, with Vortiger in it 137. becomes mighty famous for bis skill in Chivalry ibid. pursues Hengist into the North 138. and fights with him 139. beats him ibid, and takes him prisoner 141. takes the town of Cornboru or Cones- burgh 141. after which Ren- gist is beheaded^ and then Vortiger marches to York against Hengist's son 142. he pardons the said son, and pro vides for him 143. and is mer. ciful toothers also ibid, erects Churches, and is a friend to Bishops ibid, makes good laws, goes to several Places, and at last comes to Ambres bury 144. consults aboui e- recting a Monument to the Britains, that were treacher ously slain at Ambresbury ib. sends for Merlin out of Wales, on purpose to have his direc. tion about the Monument 145. orders the Stones to be fetcht out of Ireland, which had been before brought out of Africa 147. Aurelius and his great men come to Ambres bury, where is a great Feast at Whitsontide, and Stone- henge is then erected by the Art of Merlin 148, 149. discomfits Pascence, son of Vortiger 149. falls sick at Winchester 150. where he is poysoued 150, 151. strange lights in the firmament, just about the time of his. death 151. is buried at Stonehenge 154. Aurely (King) 225 Austria (the Duke of) takes K. Ri- INDEX. 749 Richard the I. 488. his mi- " -serable death 489, 490 Austyn (St.) comes iuto Eng land, and preaches Christ; u nity there 230. the first Arch bishop of Canterbury 231. he injoyns the Britains to be sub ject to the Archbp. of t anT terbury 234. but the Britains refuse this ibid. Aylbrygt. See Ethelbert. Aylesbur castle 230 B Bachelour of Arts (the Degree of) look'd upon as a very great honour formerly 705 Bacon (Robert [it should be rather Roger] ) flpurishes 520 He sometimes retired to Sun. ningwell in Berkshire 694 Bagford (John) 639. a letter to him, containing some Re marks upon Geffry Chaucer and his Writings 596. a let ter to him concerning a book printed at Tavistock 707 Baker 584, 609, 677 Balsom (John of) 545 Bangor (the great abbey of) 233 the Monks of Bangor de. stroy'd by the Saxons 236 Barkeley (Alexander) 705, 706, 713 Barkshir& strange disorders commmed in that County by the Danes 296. particularly at Assesdoune or Asshedoune, and about Quychelmesley or Quicholmes ibid. ¦ Barons war in the time of K. John, the beginning and pro gress of it 509, Sfc. the Ba rons are assisted by Lewis K. of France 511. who takes for them the Castle of Rochester 512. the Castle of Famham ibid. Winchester ibid, the Castle of Odiham ibid, and the Tower of London ibid. the Barons Warrs in the time of Henry Hid. 535. they burn a vast many Places 546 Basian (K.) 76 Basile (Sir Maci de) 535, Sf seqq. Basset (Sir Philip) 548. Basset (Lord) 631 Bathe 7. Bathe built 28. taken by the Danes 299. Bathulf or Bladuth 28 Battle abbey built by William Conq. 369 Battle bridge. See Stamford. Bausein (Sir- Stephen) kill'd 532 Beaulieu (the abbey of) in the New-Forest founded by K. John 493, 513 Bedford Castle besieged and taken by K. H. III. 519 Beclwer King of Normandy slain 216 Befs (John de) 547 Beginvuthth'e ( 551 Bernulf, K. of the Mercians 257 vanquished at Elendone by Egbrygt K. of the Westsaxons 258. is slain ibid. Beves Son of the Earl of Glou. cester, his birth 530 Bidding the Common Prayers, an 750 INDEX. an old Form thereof 624 Birinus Bishop of Dorchester 247 Bladuth 28 Bleys's (Perce) account of the shape and manners of K. Hen. ry II. 481 Blount (Thomas) 679 Boetius de Consolatione Plulo. sophia printed at Tavistock 707, Sfc* Boreford 55l Boru or Burghe (Sir Hubert de) chief Justice of England 517 an account of his fall, 523,524. he and others are pardoned by the King 526 Bradius, historicus optima? no. tm 292, 318 Breute, Brute or Bryte (Faukes de) opposes K. Hen. Ill 519 defends himself in Bedford Castle, which however is ta ken, and he forced to fly ibid. his brother William and four score other Knights hanged ib. Breynford 303 Bridges (John) 640 Bristol or Bristow adorn'd and beautified by Robert Earl of Gloucester 433. the Castle with the noble Tower there built by him ibid, and the Priory of St. James Pid. in which he is buried ibid, the Abbey of St. Austin at Bristol founded 479. the Castle of Bristow possess'd by K. Hen ry the Third's friends 548. but surrendered by the . King's Command 552 Britain so called from Brute 22 invaded by Julius Caesar 44 looseth it's Name, & is called England 256 Britains (the) sadly persecuted by the Saxons 226 and forced into Wales ibid, but take all opportunities of recovering *¦ their Lands 229. Christianity always amongst the Britains in Wales from the time of King Lucius 232, 233. the Britains reject St. Austin's command, that they should be subject to the Arch bp. of Can terbury 234. call a Parlia ment, and choose Duke Cad- wan to be their King 236 the misery of the Britains in the time of K. Cadwallad or Cad- walladre 251, 252. they fly into Wales upon arrival of the Saxons 254. and live there afterwards 256 Britannia; (de mirabilibus) 572 Brocmayl, Duke of Britain, van. quish'd by the Saxons 235 Brown 725 Brumesfeld or Brumefeld Castle 538 Brunne's (Robert of) Chronicle cited 687. Passages out of it 621, 622, 627, 641, 643, 644, 649. 651, 655, 652, 663, 664, 678, 695, 702, 703, 706, 720, 721, 722, 737, 738. in one of which Passages is as.little ac. count of himself 706 Brunnesbury. See Brymesbury. Brute's Birth 10. his Mother died in Child-bed 11. he shoots INDEX. 751 shoots his own Father ibid. his Adventures & Conquests ibid, the first Lord in Eng land ibid, marries Innogeu 13 the courage of his Nephew Tourus 19. Brut and Coiine- us land in Cornwal 20. Brute's three Sons 23 Brute grenshild 28 Bruton Abbey built by William de Mohun 448, 467 Brymesbury or Brunnesbury (battle at) 274 Budic King of Lesser Britain 1 10 Bunsyntoue Castle 230 Burghe. See Boru. Burghes 484 Cadan, K. of Scotland, slain by - K. Cadwal 246 Cadour, Earl of Cornwal, his great Service to K.Arthur 176 his Advice upon K. Arthur's receiving a Letter from Lucie, Senatour of Rome 194,195 Cadwal King of Britain 241. a difference between him - and Edwyne' K. of Northumber land ibid, he is overthrown by Edwyne 242. flyes into Ireland ibid, the Hazards he undergoes at Sea 242, 243. ar rives in the Isle of Guernsey 243. falls sick ibid, recovered by his trusty Servant Bryan 243, 244. kindly received in Little Britain by K. Salomon 244. he lands at Totness in Great Britain 245. beats Pen. da K,' of Mercia, and takes him Prisoner ibid, after which Penda assists him, and Cadi. wai thereby receives great ad vantage ibid, beats his Adver sary K. Edwyne, and s)a,y» him 245, 246. his Severity af terwards 246. his Victory over Osryc K. of Northumber. land, whom he slays z'ozYZ. he and Penda war against St. Os. wald 249. his death 251 Cadwallad,orCadwalladre,made King of Britain 251. the Mi sery of the Britains in hi* time 251, 252. his sorrowfull Complaint thereupon 252. goes to Little Britain 253. where he is well receiv'd ibid. his Vision 254. goes to Rome 255. where he dyes ibid. Cadwan King of Britain 236, 237. the agreement between him and K. Edelfred or Elfrid ibid, receives K. Edelfred's or Elfrid's Queen into his own House 237 Calne, a Council there, in which the Floor of the Chamber, where they sat, fell, but with out hurt to St. Dunstau 287, 2S8 Calvert (Benedict Leonard) 725, 726 Calybourne K. Arthur's Swords 174 Camber. See Kamber. Came (commonly called Cane) ' Abbey built by William Conq. 369 Camele (the King pf) 409 Camel. 752 INDEX. Camelworthe. FzrfeTamewurthe. Cane. See Came. Canterbury built 28. besieged, taken and burnt by the Danes 298. St. Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury 469. Baldwin Archbp. of Canterbury begins a Chantery at Lambhith 484 Hubert Archbishop of Canter bury his death 493. Contest about the power of Elect ing an Archbishop of Canter bury ibid, and what followed thereupon 494. Stephen of Langton made Archbishop by the Pope ibid, which occasions strange troubles ibid. Stephen Langton's death 522. he is' succeeded by Richard the Grant or Richard ele Wether- shed ibid. Edmund of Abbipg- "ton made Archbishop 525- his death 529. Boniface Arch bishop of Canterbury 531 Carausius, his treachery 77. by which he gets himself made King in England 78- and 6- verqomes Basian 79. but is at last slain hy Allecfus ibid. Cardoyl or Carlile made a' Bi- shoprick 442 Carleon 74, 7g2 Carlile. See Cardoyl. Cary (the Castle of) 448 Caryc or Kat'erik (King) 225. besieged in Cyrencestre 226 Cassijjel (K,) 44. in whose time Julius Caisar came into Eng land ibid, his Letter to Julius Cassar 46. his brother Netihy 48. he fights with Julius ibid. and beats him 49, 50. his be. haviour upon the Victory 50. he fixes Stakes in the Thames 51. which prove very pernici. ous to Julius Cassar ibid, he beats Julius the second time in battel 52. he besieges, Lon don, but soon raises the Siege 55. he is overepme by Julius Caesar thrpugh treachery of- Androge Earl of Kent 56. he sends to Androge 57. and An droge thereupon intercedes with the Emperour 58. and Peace is made between the Emperour and Cassibel ibid. Cassibel's death 59. he is bu ried at York ibid. Catigen slain in Battel 121 Caumpedene (Robert of) 544 Caxton born and learned ' his English in K^fit, SfC. 700. he was a man of learning 71 1 Ce'olulph or Seowulf (K.) 257 Certick K. of Westsex 164 Cllastelfeld 564 Chasterfelde 564 Chaucer (Geffry) a Letter to Mr. Bagford containing -some Remarks relating to him and his Writings 596 Chaus (Sir Patrick de) kill'd 53? Cheldryk, See Theldryk. Chelryk K. of the Saxons assists Modred in his treachery" a- gaihst K. Arthur 221 Cherrius (Franciscus) 376 Chester (Rauf or Randolph Earl of) marries Robert Earl of Gloucester's daughter 451 and INDEX. 753 and espouses the Cause ofthe Emperess Mand ibid, takes Lincoln ibid, draws up in or- ¦ der of battle with his Father in law the Earl of Gloucester against K. Stephen 452. his ¦Speech on that occasion di rected to the E. of Gloucester ibid. King Stephen is beat, and taken Prisoner by them 460. is released 462 Chichester (St. Richard bishop of) 530, 531 Chippenham in Wilts, an old Stone Coffin round near that Place {530 Christ's Birth 61. and Cruci. fixion ib. Christian. See Cristyne. Christianity destroy^ in Eng land 226. but restored by St. Austyn 230. the first plant. ing of Christianity in Britain 232 Christians in the Holy Land, in the time of Herny II. their Misery 479, 480. the Original of the Christians putting up Pennons and other Ensigns of Honour in Churches 668 Cilchestre. See Silchester. Circetre Abbey founded 430 Clare (Richard of) born 518. Gilbert Clare Earl of Glou. cester, his death £23. his Son Richard under the care of Sir Peris de Roches, Bishop of Winchester ibid, this Richard marries Maud, daughter of the Earl of Lincoln 527. Gil- bert de Clare, ^n of Richard Val. II. de Clare, his birth 530 Claudius the Emperour 62 comes to England ibid, and fights with King Gnider ibid. but is beat 62, 63, 64. he of fers to make Peace with Ar uirag, and to give him his daughter in marriage 65. which daughter is accord ingly married to him 66. he and Aruirag build Gloucestre ibid, he begets a Sen called Glow ibid, he returns to Reme 67 Cliffprd (SiT Roger de) 536. Sf seqq. Coffins (an account of some Stone) 629, 630, 631 Coil (King) 72 Colchestre whence so called 82 Cole Earl of Colchester 82. kills Asclepiod in battel, and is made King of Britain 83. a. grees with Constance the Se natour ibid, his death 84 Colne Abbey in Essex, Con secration of the -Church there 615 Comet seen in the Year Rob. Courtehose was taken Prison. er 428. Comet appears in the time of King Henry III. 548. Conan Nephew of Octavi '89, D2. Conan's Agreementtwith Maximian, and their Exploits thereupon 89. he h -made King of Lesser Britain 94. the miscarriage of his Project about sending many thou. sand Maidens into Lesser Bri tain 95, 96 Cones. 754 INDEX.' Coneshurgh: See Corhboru. Confession, the Form of an old one 683 Confrid.i See Eufryd. ; ,- . Constancies- the Senatour 82. marries Jftelene the daughter of Cole 84. and is made K- of Britain ibid, dies and is hu rried at York ibid. ._J_ Constantine of Britain 103, his , Victory over the Scots and Picts ibid, crpwn'd King at Silchesfer 104. his three Sons ibid, his Virtues ibid, liis mur der ibid, his eldest Son ..made King after him 106. but com- mitts the Go\ ernment to Vor tiger ibid, ami himself is but •the shadow of a King 107.. flain 109. and his two bro thers for safety thereupon sent beypnd Sea 110 Constantyn the Great 84'. goes against Maxencius 85. sees a Cross in the Heavens fbid. -overcomes Maxencius 86. is baptized zfizd.buyds Churches ibid. . . , Constantyn succeeds K. Arthur 224* to whom King Arthur had a little before given the Crown '223* , Constantyn' s Success against Modred's two Sons 224. he is slain by Co- nan ibid, and buried at Stone- henge ibid. Constantyn King of Scotland 272, ;'; .Cordeille or Cordoille succeeds her Father Leir in the King dom 37. taken Prisoner by her Nephews bid. See Le»7v Cordoille.- See Cordeille. See Leir. Cprf. 288 Corineus the brave 15. , Cori. neus choseth Corne wai 21 the wrestling between- Cori- . neus and Gqgmagog 22 Cornboru pr Conesburgh 141 Cornwal so called from Cori. neus 21. bounded by King Athelstan 275 Cornwal (Richar.d Earl of) in the Holy Land, and the fear, . that the Soul dan is in of him 529. he delivers the Christian Prisoners there, ibid, he mar ries Senche, Sister of Eleanor, K. Henry the third's Queen 530. he founds Hales Abbey ibid, the birth of his Son Ed. raund 531. which Edmund afterwards marries Margaret, daughter of the Earl of Glou. . • cester ibid. Richard Earl of Cornwal made King of Ale- main 532. he knights his Son Henry ibid, the death and bu rial of his Queen Senche 534 Cosham in Wilts 301. an old Stone Coffin there 630 Coventry (Minster of) . 464 Courcy (Sir John) made Earl of Ulster 484 Cradok Earl pf Cornwall 89 .., his Son Morice 90 Cranmer's Monument 668 Crekelade 269 Crispyn (William 437 Cristyne^ or Christian, Sister of Edgar INDEX; 755 Edgar Atheling, made a Nun in the Nunnery of Romsey 377 Cristyne (St.) 82 Cross (the finding of the Holy) 87. a little Dissertation about Crosses 636. See alsb several things about Crosses in p. 668, 669 Crosse 658 Crusade.. — an Account, of the great Crusade in the time of William Rufus 392, Sfc Cuckstone in Kent, the Odness of the Church there 686. Cunedag alias Rival (K.) 38 Curboyl (William) Archbishop of Canterbury, an account of the strange Perjury of him, and of the other Bishops and high Men of the Nation 445 the clergy are the Ringlead ers on that occasion ibid., in somuch that Roger Bishop of Salisbury preaches the Doc trine of Perjury 446. God Almighty is by no means pleas'd with such abominable wickedness, but shews his Judgments in a remarkable manner 445, 446. yet some had pretended, that K- Henry I. had disinherited the Em press Maud, and made Ste phen Earl of Bloys his Heir 445 Cuthbert (St.) appears to King Alfred 264. and comforts him 265 Cylycestre. See Silchester. Cyprus conquered by K.Richard I. and held afterwards of the K. of England 486 Cyrencestre 226 D Danes come into England a- gainst K.Egbrygt, but are dri ven away by him 259. the con tinual troubles the Danes ' brought upon this Land 260 the Danes flock mightily in to England in the Reign of K. Ethelred 291. and commit strange Disorders, and make odd havock at that time. 294 they are destroy'd upon St. Brice's day 295. and there upon a new Army is brought over by Swane ibid, which kills & destroys in all Places, where they come, in a most wofull manner 295, i 296. and that too after Swane's death 300. they make Knute King ibid. Dardan the good, of whose kind Brute came 10 David (St.) Uncle to K. Arthur, made Archbishop of Carleon 192, builds the Minster of St. David's, and is there buried ibid. St. David's death 225 Davison (William) 674 Day (Will) 637 Days of the Week call'd from the Planets 112, 113 Deiuile or De Eiuile. See Der- uile. Denys (St.) 67, 71. the Priorie of Derheste is given by Edw. cc 2 Conf. 756 INDEX. Conf. to the kbftey of St. Denys - -341 Derheste Priory ' 341 Deruile, Deiuile or De Eiuile (Sir John) 564, 565, 567 Devizes (the castle of) surren der^ by Roger Bishop of Sa lisbury to K. Stephen 448 Dipcliciah or Diocletian the Emperour 74, '8t DodWell 638 Domesday Book made 373 Domitian the Emperour 70 Donstere castle- 448 Dorchester (BishopWck of) 247, 248. the Shritie there 628 a large Stabs Coffin there 629 Dore. SfeeDoyrei. DorrvaVifiai{ haud dissimili 287 locus ex eadem de Edgari re gis uxoribus atque liberis 286 nti & alius, e ,quo liquet, Ed- mundum Irenside filium E- thelredi regis legitimum "fu isse 293 Graundeville alias Maundeville (Geffry) imprisoned by King Stephen, 'till he surrendered up the Tower pf London, and other Strengths 464. his Sa crilege at Ramsey Abbey ibid. his death ibid. Gray Monks (the Order of) first brpught into England 440 and first placed in'Waverley Abbey 441- and then at Foun tains ibid, the Order was be gun, 29 Years before it was brought into England, at Ci« steaux 441 Greneswych sive Greneswyke 298 Grostehead (S-obert) made Bi- - shpp of Lincoln 527. hia death 531 Grundy 637 Guayn K. of Hungarie & Melga K. of Picardie make war up on England 96. their exploits against that Country ibid. Sf seqq. Guendoley n, Corineus's daugh ter, married to Locryn25. she succeeds him in the Kingdom 27 Gule of August 679 Gurguont (K.) 39. slays the K. of Denmark ibid. ' Gurgust (K.) 39 Gurimind the Dane is baptized 266 Guyder (K.) 62 Gyffard (William) made Bishop of Winchester 422 Gyllam King of Ireland assists the Scots, to no purpose 177 is beat in Ireland by K. Ar thur, and taken by him 179 Gyne. INDEX. 765 Gynemon King of Ireland 147. opposes those that are Sent by Aurelius to fetch away Stonehenge Stnnes to Am. bfpesbu-ry ibid, but is over. powered efizd.comesinto Eng land With Pascence 150. and are both slain in battel by Pendragon 1 53 H Haduele or Hedefeld 246 Hales Abbey founded 530 Hamptone 64 Harald, Son of K . K nute, made K. of England 324. crown'd at Oxenford ibid, his Cruelty ibid, an instance of which ap pear'd ih banishing his Step father Q. Emma 325. dies at Oxenford ibid, is buried at Westminster ibid. Harald, Son of Earl Godwyn, sent by Edw. Confessor to ac quaint William Duke of Nor mandy, how he had design'd him for his heir to the Crown of England 347- but is taken Prisoner ibid, and delivered by means of Duke William ibid, tbe Contract between hia and D. William 347, 348 #hich, however, he breaks, & usurps the Kingdom of Eng land 354. his own brother Tost raises war against him ibid. andis assisted by Harald Har- fager, King-of Norway 355. Mt are both overthrown and telain at Staraftfrd Bridge, af terwards called Battle Bridge ibid, the stout-Courage of a Norwegian at that Battle 35 5, 556. Harald remiss 'in his re ward of his Souldiers^ which afterwards tends to. his great disadvantage 356i his Answer to D.William, when the Duke put him in mind of his pro mise 357. upon news of, D. William's Landing, he comes from York against him 359. refuseth the Conditions of fered him by Duke William 360. and prepares to fight with the Duke ibid, but is overcome 362. and slain ibid. and buried in Waltham Ab bey, which he founded 364 Hardeknut made K. of England 325. recalls Q. Emma from Banishment ibid, dies at Lam- hythe 326. is buried at Win ches ter ibid. Harding {Robert) made Baron of Berkeley 479. he founds the Abbey of St. Austyn at Bristoll ibid. Hure (Robertus) 584, 585 Harechester 654 Hastings (Battle of) , 360 -H-aym (Lellius) treacherously kills K. Guider 63. and is himself afterwards slain byr Aruirag 64 Haythrope Abbey 520 Heddington near Oxford, Small. man's Crpss as we go thi- ther'637 Hedefeld. See Haduele. Helene (St.) 82. this Helene 766 INDEX. was- daughter of Cole^ E. of Colchester ibid she is married to CoriStancius the Senatour 84. finds the Holy Cross 87. Her three Uncles go with her Son Constantine to Rome ib. See Eleyne; Hene (Henry) 639 Hen sold for 15s. 404 Hengist's daughter Rowen 116 Hengist vanquished by Vor.; timer 122. his return into ¦ England, upon the death of Vortimer 124. hts treachery to Vortiger and the Britains at Ambresbury ibid, where the British Nobles are slain by his Command 125. and the King most barbarously treated 126 after this Hengist and his Men take London, and abundance of other Places ibid. Hengist is mightily afraid of. Aurelius, and flyes from him 137. and betakes himself to , Scotland ibid, prepares himself to fight with Aurelius 138. arid is beat by him 139. rallies his Farces , again, but to .no purpose ib. is taken Prisoner 141. and beheaded 142. he is King of Kent 164. SeeHors. See Vor.; tiger. Hennin and Morgan two Bre thren 37. they rise against •their Aunt Cordeille ib. Mor gan is slain by Hennin 38. the Place where he was killed called Morgan ibid. See Mor. gam Henry Abbat of Glastonbury and Bishop' of Winchester 444 builds an high. To wer at the Front of St. Swithun's ibid< ¦ his death 484. he was a Be nefactor, ; to the Church of St. Swithyn ibid. Henry,'ypuhgestSnnof William the Conqueror, made King of England 420. more fit to be King than his brothers ibid.he was a good Clerk ibid, and therefore a lover of the Cler-- gy ibid, his Father foretells that he should be King ibid. knighted by his Father 42L none but he, of his Brothers . . .present at his Father's Funeral 382, 42L at whieh time his Father gave him his Blessing and his Treasure 421. his Co ronation at Westminster ibid, yet several forbore to do him homage,, upon account of his elder Brother Robert CHf- thoseibid. promises, athisCo- ronation, to abrogate the, old bad Laws, and to make good new ones 421, 422. makes William Gyffard Bishop pf Winchester 422. restores An selm Archbishop of Canter bury ibid, puts in Execution what he had promised about the Laws ibid, marries Maud, daughter of Malcolm, King nf Scotland, by which means the Crpwn of England is restored to the right Line 422, 423. she hath many gopd Laws made 423. K. Henry marches against his Brother Robert 424; INDEX. 767 424. and comes to agreement with him ibid, he and his Queen found Reading and CyrencesterAbbeys ibid. [See also pag. 429.] and several besides, as they also re store many Religious Houses, that had suffered before ibid. They have a daughter, called also Maud 424. K. Henry had a Son, called William, (that was afterwards drowned) by the same Queen 425, 430. the Issue of Henry the first gotten uppn his Cpncubine ibid, his Issue by his Wife, with some historical Particulars on that occasion ibid, the agreement between K. Henry I. and Ro. bert Courtehose broken 426- a battle between them in Normandy, in which Robert Courtehose is taken Prisoner ibid, in which Year a Comet appear'd 428. Hen. the First's Qualities ibid, a description of his Person 429- he holds a great Parliament at Westmin ster, in which he confers a great number of Bishopricks - & Abbeys ibid. Abbeys found ed in his time ibid, his eldest Son Robert made E. of Glou./ cester 432. and that Honour is hereditary ibid, his daugh ter Maud married to the Em perour of Almayn 433. he raises a great Tax to settle a Portion upon her 433, 434. the goodness of K. Henry and his Queen Maud 434. her Chastity ibid, her Piety and Charity ibid, her Answer to a Knight, that expostulated with her for washing the poor's feet 435. her death 436. she is buried at West minster ibid. K. Henry goes? into Normandy, and over comes the K. of France, and other Enemies, that had form ed a design to take Normandy from him 436, .437, 438- re turns to England 438. .the manner of the drowning of William the King's Son, and Richard Earl of Chester, and others ibid, keeps his. Christ- mass atBromton439.,his Ea ster at Berkley ibid, and his Whitsontide at Windsor, that was built by bim$ ibid, build* Woodstock ibid, and makes a Park there ibid.- marries his second Wife Adelyn or Alice, daughter, of the Duke of- Lo- vain 440. and the most beau tiful! Creature on Earth ibid. he builds the Abbey of Read ing ibid, goes again into Nor mandy against the King of France ibid, his Son in Law the Emperour's death ibid. K. Henry returns into England, and his daughter the Empress with him ibid, after which she is married to Geffry, Earl of Anjou ibid. K. Henry a great lpver pf Religious Hpuses ib. the Order pf Gray Mpnks first brought into England by his means ibid, the great Joy shew'd 768 INDEX. nhew'd by K. Henry I. upon the birth of his Grandson, Henry fitz Empress 441. keeps his Easttfr at Oxford most Splendidly upon that occasion ibid, makes Carlisle a Bishop. rick 442. goes to Normandy ibid, dies by eating a Lamprey ibid, his concern about the Kingdom 443. his Brayns, Bowells, and Eyes buried at Roan 446. and his Body at Reading ibid, a short Summary of his Reign 587 Henry fitz-empress born 441 marries Elianor, that was di vorced from 'Lewis, King of Ffance 466. and comes into England ibid, and is received by a great-Number very glad ly, as their liege Lord and the Tight Heir to the Crown 466, 467. but he and K. Stephen vre soon agreed 467. he is Crown'd King of England up on the death of K. Stephen in. takes Castles and Towns, and subdues his Enemies 468. his Son Henry born ibid, an ac count Of his other Children Hid. his Son Henry marries Margaret, daughter of Lewis, K.ofF ranee z^.K.Henryen- deavours to have wise Coun sellors ibid, he makes St. Tho mas, Archdeacon of Canter bury, his 'Chancellor ib. and reposes a wonderfull Confi dence in him 468, 469. the K. goes to Normandy 469. and leaves liis Son Henry to the care of St. Thomas ib. the great love which the Child has for St. Thomas ibid, the King gives Anjou, Tours and N'ormandy to his Son Henry ibid, and Gascoine and Aqui- taine to his Son Richard ibid. andmakes his Son Geffry Earl ' of Britain 470. the unhappy difference between K. Henry and St. Thomas ib. and what Laws of K. Henry's 'were sub mitted to by St. Thomas, and what not 470, Sfc the King lets his Son Henry be crown'd at Westminster 474- he is the occasion of St. Thomas's mur ther ibid, his exceeding grief and trouble upon tbe News of it 476. is absolved of the Guilt by two Cardinals, sent by the Pope -ibid, and there. . upon abrogates the bad Laws, and confirms the good 477 a great difference arises be. tween him and his Son Henry ibid, in which the Son hath many Abettors ibid, ihe Fa ther ascribes this to his injury to St. Thomas ib. he implores St. Thomas's AW, and over comes his Enemies, and takes the K. of Scotland Prisoner 478. after which the Father and the Son come to agree ment ibid, tho' not so, but that the Son shew'd an ill Will to his Father afterwards 478, the death of his Son Henry ibid. K.Henry resumes the Crown after his Son's death INDEX. 769 death 479. his Concubine fair Rosamond ibid, he gives the Barony pf Berkly to Ro bert Harding ibid, new trou bles arisje "against him, upon account, of his not going himself tc/ the Holy Land 480 .. his, death and burial 481 , which was three Years after the death of his Son Geffry, yrhpv left behind him a Spn, named Arthui; ibid, the shape and manners of K. Henry II. ibid, the birth. pf his Spn Ri chard at Oxford 484. as alsp pf his Spn John ibid, he has the Church of Reading Con secrated by St. Thomas ibid. the death of Eljanor, King Hen. the Second's Queen 493. a short S.ummary of K. Henry the Second's Reign 588 Henry, Son pf K. Jphn, made King 513. his Coronation at Gloucester ibid, a disturbance - in the Nation, upon account of Lewis of France, to whom many of the English had paid Homage 514. a Battle is fought upon this occasipn at Lincoln, and Lewis's Forces are beaten ibid, after this a great Fight happens at Sea, in which Lewis's Party is like wise discomfited 5 15, 516. and thereupon Lewis returns tp Trance; thp' npt withput a Sum pf Mpney given him by K- Henry ibid, he is Author of gppd Laws, after the Peace was made, and he was quit Vol. II. cf his Foes 516, 517, 522. but hath a good Pension upon that account 522. yet the quiet State did not continue long ibid, he goes to Britain, and returns the same Year 523. a contest arises between him and Richard the Marshal, on account of Hubert de Burghe and Peter de Roches 524. the Consequences of this difference ibid. Sf seqq. he marries Elianor, daughter of the Earl of Provence 527. a Scholar apprehended at Woodstock, that designed to have murdered the King 528. and is executed at Coventry ibid, the birth of his eldest Spn Edward ibid, his Coronation at Westminster 517. begins the new work at Westminster 517, 519. goes to Canterbury, to be present at the Transla tion of St. Thomas 51,8. his Sister married to WilliamMar- shall the younger ibid, and af ter to Simon de Mountfort, Earl of Leycester ibid, he be sieges Bedford Castle, and takes it 519. a strange hot Summer and Drought in his time 520, 531. he gees into France 520. returns ibid, a great Contentipn ariseth be tween him and Edmund Arch bishop of. Canterbury, upon account of the Rights of the Church and the good old Laws, which the King would not maintain 529. the birth n n Of rTO INDEX. of his Son Edmund 530. Change of the Pence in his time ibid, an Earthquake then ib. a great battel in the Hely Landin Hen. the Third's time, in which many noble Chri stian Knights are slain 531. K. Henry gives Gascony to his Son Prince Edward ibid, his Son Prince Edward marries the Lady Elianor of Spain 532 a great War between K. Henry and Lewelin Prince of Wales, in which many brave English Knights were slain ib. an account of. the most un happy difference in his time, which was occasioned by his entrusting the Government with Frenchmen ibid, this oc casions the Provisions at Ox ford "533. which cause great troubles 535. and Prince Ed ward and the Barons rise a- gaicstthe King ibid, the King at Oxford, where he lyes at the Preaching Friers for about three Weeks together 545. and visits St. Frideswyde's 520, 515. goes to Northam pton, and takes the Town 545 he fights with the Barons at Lewis, and is taken Prisoner 546, 547. a Comet appears a- bout that time 548. his friends secure themselves in the Ca stle of Bristoll ibid, a Parlia ment at Loudon to remove all Frenchmen 550. what "happens to him after the Battle at Evesham, in which his Enemies were overcome by his Son Prince Ed «rard 561 the Queen " comes from be yond Sea, with Ottobon the Pope's Legat 562- K. Henry III. besieges KeningwuTthe Castle 566. calls a Parliament to meet at Keningwurthe 567 and a Convention, at North ampton 568. the Castle of Keningwurthe is surrendered to him 569. after which ano ther disaster befalls him, by the Insurrection of Gilbert Earl of Gloucester ibid, but they are bofh reconciled 570 the death of K. Henry III. 521 he is buried at Westminster ibid, a description of him ibid. a short Summary of his Reign 590 Henry IV. (K.) ashortSummary of his Reign 593 Henry V. (K.) ashortSummary of his Reign 594 Henry VI. (K.) ashortSummary of his Reign 595 Henton Abbey founded 520 Hereford Castle built 269. Sir Peter de Egeblaunche, Bishop of Hereford 537 Hcrlote, Mother to William the Conquerour 344. her dream ibid. & 345 Hexton in Hartfordshire 656 Hickesius 619,652 Hogenortone or Hoggenortone 269 Ilolingshed (Raphael) the first Edition of his Chronicle the true genuine Edition 368 Holmes INDEX. 771 Holmes (Georgius) 671 Holt (John) 637 Homber K. of Hungri 23 Homber Water 24 Hors and Hengist arrive in Kent 111. and are brought before K.Vortigerz'fizrf.Hengistassists Vortiger 113, 114. his request to' Vortiger 114. Hengist's Advice to Vortiger 119. his two Sons Octe and Ebise 120 Hors slain 121 How (Josias) 669, 670 Howel, K.ofLittleBritain, assists K. Arthur 169. wins Pey to and Gascoyn for K. Arthur 186. his Counsel upon oc casion of Lucie Senatour of Rome's Letter to K. Arthur 197 Hugh (St.) Bp. of Lincoln's death 492 Hycophrix or Hycothrift 640, Hynguar and Hubba 262 Hypocrisy (the) of many great Men iu Church 369 James I. (K.) in love with hand. some Persons and fine Cloaths 635 Jerusalem destroy'd 70. rebuilt in part 72. Siege of Jerusalem 409. Kings of Jerusalem, viz. (I.) Robert Curihose 411. (2.) Godfray 413. (3.) Balde wyne z'Az 4 assists 776 INDEX. assists Edgar and his Allies in opposing William the Conq. 370. Malcolm K. of Scotland and Edgar Atheling enter England, and destroy the Nor^th Cpuntry 388. but are overppwered ibid. Malcplm makes peace with K. William, and dpes him Homage ibid. goes to K. William at Glou cester, and returns full of wrath 391. destroys the North Country ibid, but is beat by Rob. MoubrayEarl of North umberland, and himself and his Son Edward are slain ibid. soon after which his Wife Margaret dies for grief 392. but her daughter Maud, to the comfort of this Nation, survives her ibid. Malgo (King) 225 Malmesbury Abbey founded 280. turned into Stables by K. Edwyne ibid. Marcus the Emperour 72 Margaret, daughter of the Earl of Gloucester, born 531. she was afterwards married to Edmund Earl of Cornwal ibid. Marius (King) 72 Mark (St.) sent into Egypt 67 Marmyon's (Robert) Sacrilege - and Death 464 Marra or Maura (Siege of) 408 Marriage (the Issue of an un godly) 118 Marshall (William) the elder's death 517. William Marshall ihe younger married to King Henry the third's Sister 51-8 Martelestnne 479 Martelle (Sir William) 462 Martyn's (St.) See Lpndnn. Matthew Earl pf Flanders mar ries the Abbess nf Rpmesey 484 Maud Wife ef K. Henry I. 316 See Henryi, Maud, King Henry the First's daughter, after the death pf her first Husband the Empe rour, is married to Geffray Earl of Anjou 440. and hath by him a Son called Henry 441. a difference between her and her Husband 442. Oaths taken tp her and her Son by. all the Kingdom, and also by Stephen de Bloys 443. but they are all forswprn 445 She and her Brother Rpbert Earl pf Glpucester cpntinue in Nnrmandy, 'till they see a proper oppprtunity pf appear. ing in behalf ef her Spn Hen ry Curtmantle ibid. Geffrey, Earl nf Anjnu, Husband pf theEmpress Maud, entersNnr. mandy, and receives Tribute of the Nprmahs 451. She en ters England, with her Bro ther Rpbert E. pf Gloucester, in the fifth Year of K. Stephen ibid, and takes her Lodging in Arundel Castle ibid, where she is taken Prisoner by K. Ste phen ibid, but he lets her go again ibid, after which she goes to Bristol ibid, whither K. Stephen is brought. Pri soner INDEX. sonertoher 461. upon which she is held as King and Queen all pver England, excepting in Kent ibid, she carries her self too haughtily 461, 462. marches to Winchester, and besieges the Bishep's Castle ibid, but is forced tp fly 462. and her Brother Robert Earl of Gloucester is taken Pri soner there ibid, and-released ibid, she is besieged by K, Ste phen in the Castle of Oxford ibid, she escapes from thence by stratagem to Walingford 463. death of the Empress Maud 474 Maxencius the Emperour 84. o- vercome by Constantyn the Great 86. his death ibid. Maximian the Emperour 81, 84. Maximian the noble Senatour of Rome 89. Maximian comes into Britain 91, and marries King Octavi's daughter 92. and with her takes the King dom of England ibid, his Ac quisitions in France ibid, slain byTheodosius 94 Mellyt (St.) Bishop of London 232. St. Mellyt, Archbishop Laurence and Bishop Juste consult about the Interest of the Christian Religion 239. St. Mellyt made Archbishop of Canterbury 241 Melton Castle 448 Men. — An old British Custom for Men at Feasts to b,e by themselves, and Women by themselves 1S1 Mercurius 112. call'd Wodea in the Saxon Tongue ibid. Merlin found out at Kermerdya 128. brought with his Mother to King Vortiger 129. her ac count how Merlin was begot 129, 130. he baffleth K. Vor- tiger's Enchanters 130, 131. sheweth what was the occa sion, that the Foundation of K. Vortiger's Building was obstructed 131. his Prophecy with relation to the Dragons 132. foretells in what man ner Vortiger should die 133. and what Mischiefs should happen from the Saxons 134. Merlin sent for out of Wales, and by his Art Stonehenge is erected 145. he interprets the meaning of Lights in the Firmament 151. he aideth Uter Pendragon with his Counsel about Ygerne, Wife to the Earl of Cornwal 158. his Prophecy about the Bri tains 254, 256 Mersueld ' 249 Meynpris 27 Minor Friers (the Order of) begins 498, 520, 590 Missenden Abbey in Bucking hamshire 631. an old Stone Coffin found there with an intire Corps in it ibid. Modred Nephew to K. Arthur 220. usurps K. Arthur'sCrown ibid.a,nd takes the King'sWife to bed to him ibid, is assisted by Chelryk K. of the Saxons 221 . put to flight by K.Arthur ibid. 778 INDEX. ibid. & 222. after this he en. gages K. Arthur again in Cornwal 222. where King Arthur strikes off his Head 223 Mold the good Queen, K. Henry the first's Wife 353. daughter of Malcolm King of Scotland 368 Monks, their diligence in pre serving Learning 709 Montfort (Simon de) marries Elianor, bister of K. Henry III. 527. receives of the King the tarldom of Leycester 528 Morgan and Hennin 37 Morond Earl of Gloucester 218 Mortimer (Roger de) disheri ted 552 Mountfprd (Simpn) the young er, Earl of Leycester, taken 546. and imprison'd at Wind sor ibid, he beats the King at Lewes, and takes him Pri soner 546, 547,548. and swag gers mightily afterwards ibid. Sf seqq. his Transactions af ter this 549. Sf seqq. his Son Simon besieges the Castle of Pevensey 556. but leaves the Siege, and goes and takes Winchester ibid, and after wards he goes to Oxford, and seeks to slay the Jews there, but they were fled 556 he goes to Keningwurthe, where he is baffled by Prince Ed ward 557. the Earl comes to Kemesey by Worcester 558. thence tn Euesham ibid, his Son and his Host are at Al- chester ibid, the Earl fights with the Prince at Evesham, but is beat and slain ibid. Sf seqq. his Son comes to meet his Father after his death 561 but returns to Keningwurthe ibid, and releases the King of Alemaine and other Prison ers ibid, the Earl's Lady after his death is banished out of England 562. the Earl's Son agrees with King Henry III. 563. and goes beyond Sea 564 Murray (John) 607, 671, 731 N Nenny Brother to K. Cassibel 48. fights with Julius Cassar 49. but is wounded to death 49, 50. and is buried at the Nprth Gate of London 50 Nequam (Alexander) made Ab bat of Cirencester 510 Nero made Emperour 67. slays St. Peter and St." Paul 68. rips up his Mother's Womb v ibid, desires to bring forth a Child himself ibid, his Physi cians make him bring forth a Frog 68, 69. which he nou- risheth with great care 69. aud builds the Lateran Court for it ibid, burns Rome 70. is slain ibid. Nerva the Emperour 70 Newark Castle yielded up to K. Stephen 449 New Forest 375 Northampton taken by K.Henry III. INDEX. 779 III. 545. a Conventipn at Northampton in the time nf Hen. III. 568 Nerton's (Thp.) Versien' of . CXV. Psalm 622 Norwych burnt by the Danes 296. the Priory ofthe Monks at Norwich burnt 521 Nut sold for Id. 404 Nyce (Siege of) 394 O Octa Son of Hengist secures himself in York 140. sub- mitts himself to Vortiger 142, 143. and is provided for by him the said Vortiger 143 Octavi (Earl) 87. made K. of Britain ibid, beats Trahen 88 but Trahen afterwards van- quisheth him ibid, upon which he flyes beyond Sea, but soon returns upon Trahen's death ibid, and afterwards holds the Kingdom all his Life 89. con sults about disposing of the Kingdom after his death ibid. marries his daughter to Maxi mian 92 Octovian the Emperour 61 Odiham Castle 512 Odo (Bishop) assists Robert Curthose against William Ru fus 384, 385. but is over come, and forced to abjure England 387 Olenege or Olneye 307 Osfryd or Ostryd 246 Osney Abbey 369. the Fray there upon account of the Pope's Legat 520, 527, 528 Osryc K. of Northumberland beaten and slain by K. Cad wal 246 Osryck (whom others call Os- bert pr Osbright) K. of North. umberland, slain by the Danes 263 Ostryd. See Osfryd. Oswald (S.) K. of Northuraber. land 247. slain in battel at Mersueld 249 Oswald (St.) the Bishop's death 292 Oswy made King of Northum berland 249. makes peace with K. Cadwal ibid, declines meeting K. Penda in the Par liament at London ib. fights with Penda and slays him 250 Otho the Pope's Legat affronted at Osney by Oxford 520, 527, 528. and forced to retire into Osney Steeple ibid. Otte and Eose their treason 154 invite a great number out of Germany 155. and besiege York ibid, but are beat ibid. and taken Prisoners 156. get out of Prison, and fly into Germany 162. raise Forces and arrive in Scotland ibid. they are both beat and slain by Uter Pendragon 163 Oxenford or Oxford 269, 299 burnt by the Danes 297. the King's Hall at Oxford a fair Place 441. Oxford Castle be sieged by K. Stephen 462, 463 and surrendered to him 463 Oxford 780 INDEX. Oxford Scholars offend Otho the Pope's Legat 627. and suffer for it 528. some of them retire t6 Northampton, and some to New Salisbury, and why 520. St. Frideswide's at Oxford visited by K. Henry III. ibid, the Provisious at Oxford iu the time of Henry III. 633. a Relation of the great Difference between the Scholars and Townsmen of Oxford in the time of Henry III. the circumstances of -which are all very remarkable 540. St. Frideswyde at Ox ford visited by K. Henry III. who then lay at the Preaching Friers 545. many Places a- bout Oxford burnt by Sir John Giffard in the time of K. Henry HI. 546. the Jews fly all from Oxford, for fear of Simon -Mountford, the Earl of Leycester's Son 556. old Crosses in and about Oxford 637 Pascence, Son pf Vortiger, in vades England, but is drove away 149. goes into Ireland, and gets the assistance of Gyneman, K. of Ireland 150 is opposed by Uter 152 Patrick (St.) Monk and Abbat of Glastonbury 233. where he was buried ibid. Paul. — St. Paul, St. Denys, Sfc. C7 Paynell (Tho.) 705, 706 Peke (the wonder of the) 7 Pelham (Tho.) 637 Penda, K. of Mercia, overcome by Cadwal, K. of Britain 245 'and taken Prisoner by him ibid, after this he assists Cad wal ibid, fights with and slays St. Oswald at Mersueld 249. his malicious temper ibid. goes against Oswy King of Northumberland 250. by whom he is beat and slain ibid. Pensey Castle 387 Peris the Wise of Pomfret fore tells the end of King John's Reign 505. for which he is thrown into Prison ibid, and because his prediction proves. false he is executed 509 Peris (Master) of Radenor 565 Peter (St.) the first Pope of Rome 67 Peter's Pence and other Bene factions to Rome in the Sax. on times 611 Peterborough Abbey 283 Petreye the Roman, the taking of him 211 Pevensey besieged 556 Picardes or Pictes, the coming' of them into Ireland 41. and from thence into Scotland ibid, they send into Ireland for Women 42. which are sent them upon condition, that, in dubious Cases, the Name and Heritage should follow the Woman ibid, they make War upon England 96; are drove INDEX. "781 drove into Ireland 97. but, upon the death of Gracian, make great wast in England ibid, but are quelled by the assistance pf the Romans 98. and a Wall, commonly called the Pictes Wall, is built a- gainst them ibid, which they throw down 103. the Pictes come put pf Scotland, and take many Towns 113 Pictes. See Picardes. JPterce tbe IPIoucbman's CreBe, the Glossary printed at the End of it 646, 647 Plantagenent (Geffry) Earl of Anjou's death 465 Pokelchyrche 278 Porpeis (Philip) 566 Portsmouth whence so called 164, 227 Poulet (Sir Amice) 673, 675, 676 Powell (James) 637 Powell (Mr.) pf Sandford by Oxford 638 Preaching Friers (Order of) be. ginneth 492, 520 Prones, the neglect cf them 681 the form of an old one 682 Psalms in Meeter by Sternhold, Hopkins, Sfc. defended 622, 698. this Version unwarrant ably altered by modern In novators ibid. Purple wore by none but Kings and Queens in old time 739 Q Quarere Abbey founded 430 Quedesle 538 Quychelmesley qr Quicholmes 296 R Raius <642 Ramsey Abbey 283 Randulf Earl of Chester his death 523 Rawlinson (Thomas) 624, 634„ 647, 673, 700, 739 Redynge 263. Reading Abbey founded by K. Henry I. 429, 440. tho' Monks of Cluny were first plac'd there, yet 'tis plac'd among the Benedictine Abbeys by the Publishers of the Monasticon Angl.430. the Chiirch of Reading conse crated by St.Thomas, Archbp. of Canterbury 469, 484 Religion (the Christian) when first planted in England 73 Richard Earl of Cornwal mar ries Isabel Widow of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester 523. goes to the Holy Land 528. the death of his Wife Isabel ibid, her Body bu ried at Beaulieu, herHeartatTewks- bury, and her Bowels atMis- senden 529 Richard Earl of Gloucester his death 535 Richard the Earl Marshal, an account of the difference be tween liim and K. Henry III. and the cpnsequences thereof 524. he is treacherously slain 525, 526. at which the King i» 7S2 INDEX. is extremely grieved ibid, his Heir is his brother Gilbert ib. Richard I. King of England born at Oxford 484. crown'd ibid, upon which day happen. ed a great disaster to the Jews 485. a Famine and Pestilence happen the same Year ibid. gives his brother John the Earldom of Gloucester and other Lands ibid, a great bat tle between the Christians and Saladin in his time ibid. upon which he goes to the Holy Land 486. and performs wonders 486, 487. Troubles rais'd against him by his. bro ther John 488. which makes him return ibid, he is taken Prisoner inhis return ibid. ran. som'd out of Prison 489. his return to England 490. he crushes his Enemies ibid, goes to Normandy, and comes to agreement with his brother John 491. after which he conquers his Foes at pleasure ibid, but is at last shot ibid. and dies soon after ibid, and is buried at Fount Ebraud ib. a short Summary of his Reign 588 Richard II. King of England, a short Summary of his Reign 593 Richard, King of Alemaine, ta ken Prisoner in the battle of Lewes 547. but released 561 Richard, K- of the Romans, his death 521. his Heart bu ried in tlie Church of the Mi nor Friers at Oxford, his Body at Hayles ibid. Robert Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury 333. a proud Prelate ibid, his wickedness in accusing Emma of Incontinence with the Bi shop of Winchester ibid, upon her deliverance he flies be yond Sea, and never returns again 341 Robert Curthose claims the Crown of England 384. and is assisted by his Uncle Bishop Odo 381, 385. but Odo is at last subdued 387. and Ro bert comes to agreement with his brother 388. assists his brother against Malcolm K. of Scotland ibid, goes with Edgar Atheling into Nor mandy 389. goes to the Holy Land, and performs wonder full things there 393. Sf seqq. made King of Jerusalem 411 but declines it ibid, for which he never had good luck af terwards 412. the make of his body ibid, why called Cur. those ibid, returns into Eng land with great shame ibid. marries 413. and hath two Children William & Richard ibid, displeas'd that his young er brother Henry was King of England 423. and therefore comes against him from Nor mandy, and lands at Ports- mouth ibid, an agreement is made between them 424. and Robert returns to Normandy ibid. INDEX. 783 ibid, the agreement is broke 426. a Battle between the King and Robert Curthose, in which Robert is taken Pri soner ibid- and is kept in Prison during Life afterwards ibid, an account of his death from a Bodleian MS. 426. in which 'tis wrong asserted, that his Eyes were put out 427. a great failure in him, that he . ideclin'd being K. of Jerusalem 428. a Comet seen in the Year he was taken Prisoner ibid, his death about three Yeacs before the death of Hen. I. 443. he is'buried at Gloucester ibid, the death al so of his Son William ibid. Robert Earl of Gloucester, an account of his Creation, and of his marrying Mabyle, daughter of Robert Fitz Haym 431, 432, 433. performs a great many good Deeds 433 adorns and beautifies the Town of Bristol ibid, builds a Castle there, with a noble Tower ibid, and the Priory of St. James, in which he is buried ibid, his Son Earl Wil liam builds the Abbey of Keynesham ibid. Robert Earl of Gloucester opposes K. Ste phen, and well stores his Ca stle of Bristol against him in behalf of the Empress Maud, who was his Sister 447. his Reply to his Son in law the Earl of Chester's Speech, be fore the Battle with K. Ste phen at Lincoln 453. he is taken Prisoner at Winchester 462. but is set at liberty ibid. he dies 465. and is buried in the Priory of St. James at Bristol ibid. Roche sive Roches (Peres vel Peter de la) Bishop of Win chester 493, 524- brings a, Command from Rome, that Peter's Pence should be ga. thered in England 493 Rochester Castle 387 Roger Bishop of Salisbury not only perjur'd himself, but preaches up Perjury toothers 446. he is seiz'd by K. Ste phen 448. and forc'd to sur render his Castle of Devizes, and his great-Treasures, to the King ibid, after which he is imprison'd, ashedeserv'd449 and dies with grief 450. the Castles of Shirbourn and the Devizes were built by him ibid. Rolendrych 578 Rome founded 38. burnt 70 Romsey Nunnery 377 Rosamond (Fair) K. H. the Se cond's Concubine 479. she is buried at Godstow ibid, her Bower atWoodstock 479, 588 besides which she had Bowers in other Places 479 Rowen Hengist's daughter 116, 695. married to K. Vortiger 119, 696 Rudhudibras. See ho. Rychard (Dan Thomas) 707, 712 Sadler 784 INDEX, Sadler 658 Salisbury. — Damage at Salis bury Ch-irch by Lightning temp. W. Rufi4l6. Salisbury Minster founded 518, 519. the new Church of Salisbury consecrated 534 Sandford near Oxford 638 Sandwich 300 Saviour (the Step of our) brought into England 520 Saxon Tongue spoke in Robert of Gloucester's time 364 Saxons come in Swarms into England, with a design to gain all themselves 120. they get pessessien pf Engfand 126 the first Kings of the Saxons , 164. the time when the Sax- ens got full power in Eng land 165. the Saxons get all England 227. their Kings ibid, the Saxons call'd into Britain 254. and get all into their hands 256. and have se ven Kings 257. but the Land at last came ali tp one King ibid. Scholars (all) formerly stil'd . Clarks 634 Scottes the oldest People in Ire- ' land 41. upon what account , Scotland was so called from ¦ them 42. Papers about the Queen of Scots 673. See' also p. 671 Sebastian (St.) 82 Sebrygt K. of Essex 238. the obstinacy of his three hea thenish Sons ibid. Segbrit first of all builds West minster Abbey 610. and is there buried ibid, Segrave (Sir Stephen) made chief Justice of England 524 he is apprehended 526 Seowulf or Ceolulph (King) 257 Seuerne 27 Severus the Emperour 75. mar ries Fulgence's Sister mid. his Sons Basian and Geta ibid. Shaftsbury Abbey built by Al fyfe, Mother of K. Edgar 2S4 Shirbourne Castle 4o3 Shottesbrooke 638 Shrewsbury Castle 448 Silchester, Cylycestre or Cliche, stre 104, 166 Siluester (St.) 86. Sisille (K.) 39 Siward (Duke) 17 Smith (Richard) * 627 Souche (Alan de la) slain 'by the Earl Warein before the Justices, as they were on the Bench 570 Southhampton 64, 67. robb'd by the Danes 291 Spelman's (Sir Henry) History of Sacrilege 376 Spencer 645 Sserston 302, 537 Stamford Bridge,the Battle there between Harald and Tost 355 thence afterwards called Bat tle Bridge ibid. Stanhengist. See Stonhyngel. Staplelpn (Walter).an account of his INDEX. 785 his murther and burial 704 Stephen Earl of Bloys his Issue by William the Conqueror's daughter 444. with au ac count of their Education ibid. Stephen Earl of Bloys (Sou of K. Henry the First's Sister) sworn to Maud the Empress and her Son 443. as is also all England ibid, but they all forget these Oaths, and are miserably and most abomi nably forsworn 444. and Ste phen usurps the Kingdom, and is crown'd by William Cur- boyl Archbishop of Canter bury ibid, the said Archbishop and the other Bishops the Ringleaders in this dismal Sin of Perjury 445. one of which Bishops is Roger Bishop of Salisbury, who preach'd up the doctrine of Perjury 446, 450. the Judgments of God Almighty in this dole- full Tragedy 445, 446, 450. Hugh Bigot is pretended by some (tho' not by Robert of Gloucester) as a Voucher, that K. Henry I. had disinherited the Empress Maud, and made Stephen his Heir 445. K. Ste phen goes to Oxford, and does good things there with respect to some of the Laws, tho' not so with respect to others 446, 447. goes against David K. of Scotland 447. and brings him to agreement, tho' not to do homage, he having sworn before (as Vol. II. many others in England had) to the Empress Maud ibid, the first two Years of his Reign he had good fortune, but not afterwards ibid, for in his third Year the K. of Scotland makes war upon him ibid, and Robert Earl of Gloucester, and mauy other great Men declare themselves against him, and oppose him vigor ously 447, 448. shews himself to be a vile Prince 448. and a bitter Enemy to the Clergy ib. goes to Oxford, and seizes the Bishop of Salisbury, and puts him in Prison according to his desert 449. as he does also Alexander Bishop of Lin coln ibid, whom he forces to surrender to him his Castle of Newark ibid, .the King be gins his Wars with Robbery ibid, these Wars last seventeen Years ibid, the Archbishop of Canterbury and other Bishops meet in Council at Winche ster about these Matters, and wait upon the King, intreat- ing him to reform his acti ons ibid, but in vain 450. K. Stephen besieges the Empress Maud in the Castle of Arun del 451. which he t?.kes with the Empress with it ibid, but lets her go again ibid, marches to Lincoln against the Earl of Chester and the Earl of Gloucester 452. the Speech of one of his Men before the Battle at Lincoln 456. fights b e with 786 INDEX. with bpth tlie Earls there 459. but is pverppwered and taken Prisoner 460. and is sent to the Tower of Bristol 461. fortifies himself at Wil ton, but is forced thence 462 besieges, the Empress in the Castle of Oxford 462, 463. Which he takes, but the Em press had escaped 463. the strange Robberies and Mis chiefs all over Engrandin his time, the Clergy even suffer ing among the rest ibid, which > occasions a Council at Lon don, which tended to the be nefit of the Clergy, the King being present himself 463, • 464. King Stephen withdraws his Cruelty for a time 465. but at length grows as bad as eVer ibid, he burns the Town of Worcester ibid, is molested by Henry Fitz Em press, who arrives in England 466. but they soon come to agreement 466, 467. K. Ste phen dyes ibid, and is buried at Feversham 467. a short Summary of his Reign 587 Stogurcy (Priory of) 484 Stonhyngel, Stonhenge, StOne- lienge, Stanheng or Stanhen- gist 7, 573. the foundation of Stonehenge 144, Tamewurthe or Camelworthe 271 Tangcaster. See Thongcaster. Tanner (Mr.) 708 Taverner 658 Taylefer the Swayn 361 Temiwant (K.) 59 Tennant made Earl of Corn wal 48 Teokesbury or Teukesbury Ab. bey founded 369, 431 Thangcaster. See Thongcaster. Theldryk or Cheldryk comes against INDEX. '/»/ against K. Arthur 168. but is beat 170 Thomas (St.) Archdeacon of Canterbury made Chancel- lour to K. Kenry II. 468. made Archbishop of Canter bury 469. he consecrates the Church of Reading 469, 484 inshrines St. Edward 469. the unhappy difference between K. Henry and St. Thomas 470. St. Thomas. forced to flie out of England in defence of holy Church 474. his con cern at the Infringement of the Rights of the Church of Canterbury ibid, he returns info England ibid, and excom municates such as had in- fring'd the said Rights ibid, he is martyr'd at Canterbury 474, 475, 476. the Print of the Sword, with wliich St. Thomas's Skull was cleft, kept at Canterbury 476. Transla tion of .st. Thomas of Canter- terbury 518 Thongcaster, Thangcaster or Tahgcaster 116 Thorney Abbey 283 Tiberius the Emperour 61 Tillemans (Peter) • 640 Titus the Emperour 70 . Tottenais 20 Tours, how it was founded 18 Tourus (Nephew to Brute) his Courage 19 Traci (Sir William) 535 Trahen, Uncle to Helen, sent against Octavi 87. but is van. quished by him 88. raises new Forces and beats Octavi ibid. but is afterwards slain by a great Earl ibid. Trajan the Emperour 71 Trevet (Sir Thomas) 521. he was Father of the Author of the Chronicles, call'd Tre- vet's Chronicles ibid. Tunbridge Castle 387 Tryple (the Town of) taken 409 Twyne (Br.) 634 .Tyle 629, 630 Tynterne Abbey founded 430 Tyrel (Walter) slays William Rufus with an Arrow in the New Forest 418 Tyrrellus (Jacobus) 292 Venus 112. call'd Frie in the Saxon Tongue ibid. Vespasian made Emperour 70 he and his Son Titus slay the Jews ibid. Viae quatuor magna? Britannia; 572 Vincent (St.) 82 Ulster (Earls of) 484 Ululato pro tilulatu 204 Vortiger Earl of Cornwall 105 his Treachery ;'&*